Danças Surname
Approximately 43 people bear this surname
Danças Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 38 | 1:274,164 | 10,086 |
| Brazil | 5 | 1:42,814,866 | 547,158 |
The alternate forms: Dancas (16) are calculated separately.
Danças Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Danças Come From? nationality or country of origin
Danças occurs most in Portugal. It may also be found in the variant forms: Dancas. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Danças? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,979,664th most commonly used last name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 169,477,812 people. The last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 88 percent of Danças live; 88 percent live in Southwestern Europe and 88 percent live in Iberian Europe.
It is most widespread in Portugal, where it is carried by 38 people, or 1 in 274,164. Without taking into account Portugal this last name is found in one country. It is also common in Brazil, where 12 percent reside.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Danças
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