da Canha Surname

4,206,983rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 22 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
South Africa

da Canha Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

da Canha Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa161:3,386,106119,139
Venezuela41:7,551,01953,668
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
France11:66,422,722504,397

da Canha Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name da Canha Come From? nationality or country of origin

da Canha is borne by more people in South Africa than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name da Canha? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 4,206,983rd most commonly held family name internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 331,252,087 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 73 percent of da Canha reside; 73 percent reside in Southern Africa and 73 percent reside in South Bantu Africa.

This last name is most numerous in South Africa, where it is held by 16 people, or 1 in 3,386,106. In South Africa da Canha is mostly concentrated in: KwaZulu-Natal, where 88 percent reside and Gauteng, where 13 percent reside. Beside South Africa this last name occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in Venezuela, where 18 percent reside and Brazil, where 5 percent reside.

da Canha Last Name Statistics demography

da Canha earn a lot more than the average income. In South Africa they earn 48.8% more than the national average, earning R 353,616 per year.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to da Canha
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