de Proença Surname

4,532,898th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 19 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Brazil
Highest density in:
Portugal

de Proença Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

de Proença Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Brazil171:12,592,608246,358
Argentina11:42,743,414282,706
Portugal11:10,418,24125,048

The alternate forms: de Proenca (5,642) are calculated separately.

de Proença Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name de Proença Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name de Proença occurs more in Brazil more than any other country or territory. It may be found as a variant: de Proenca. For other potential spellings of de Proença click here.

How Common Is The Last Name de Proença? popularity and diffusion

de Proença is the 4,532,898th most commonly occurring family name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 383,555,048 people. It occurs mostly in The Americas, where 95 percent of de Proença are found; 95 percent are found in South America and 89 percent are found in Luso-South America.

The last name is most common in Brazil, where it is borne by 17 people, or 1 in 12,592,608. In Brazil de Proença is most numerous in: São Paulo, where 47 percent live, Paraná, where 18 percent live and Rio de Janeiro, where 18 percent live. Not including Brazil this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in Argentina, where 5 percent live and Portugal, where 5 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
de Proenca975,642/
de Proensa9016/
de Proencia8617/
de Prenza841/
da Proenca8010/
de Proence802/
de Proenco802/
di Proenca801/
de Proencio7650/
da Proencia761/
de Prenzio701/
de Prinzio6068/
de Prinzzio576/
di Prinzo532/
di Princo531/
di Prinzio502,380/
di Prinsio501/
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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 de Proença
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