dela Costa Surname
Approximately 822 people bear this surname
dela Costa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 600 | 1:168,730 | 27,522 |
| Brazil | 210 | 1:1,019,402 | 35,992 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
dela Costa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name dela Costa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name dela Costa is held by more people in The Philippines than any other country/territory. It may also appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name dela Costa? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 421,746th most frequently occurring family name in the world It is held by around 1 in 8,865,628 people. This surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 73 percent of dela Costa reside; 73 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 72 percent reside in Fil-Southeast Asia.
The last name dela Costa is most frequently used in The Philippines, where it is carried by 600 people, or 1 in 168,730. In The Philippines it is primarily concentrated in: Western Visayas, where 22 percent live, Calabarzon, where 20 percent live and National Capital Region, where 16 percent live. Not including The Philippines dela Costa occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in Brazil, where 26 percent live and Saudi Arabia, where 0 percent live.
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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 dela Costa
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