Dessouza Surname
Approximately 35 people bear this surname
Dessouza Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 17 | 1:12,592,608 | 246,358 |
| Benin | 8 | 1:1,291,950 | 54,095 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 1:9,176,050 | 23,741 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Dessouza Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Dessouza Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Dessouza is held by more people in Brazil than any other country or territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Dessouza? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 3,323,005th most prevalent last name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 208,215,598 people. The last name Dessouza is mostly found in The Americas, where 51 percent of Dessouza live; 49 percent live in South America and 49 percent live in Luso-South America.
This last name is most commonly occurring in Brazil, where it is borne by 17 people, or 1 in 12,592,608. In Brazil Dessouza is primarily found in: São Paulo, where 41 percent live, Paraná, where 18 percent live and Minas Gerais, where 12 percent live. Barring Brazil this last name is found in 8 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 23 percent live and Burkina Faso, where 6 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 Dessouza
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