dos Santos Fonseca Surname

572,911th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 550 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Brazil
Highest density in:
São Tomé and Príncipe

dos Santos Fonseca Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

dos Santos Fonseca 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
Brazil5231:409,32015,543
Switzerland111:746,62949,719
France61:11,070,454349,096
Cape Verde51:105,9283,425
São Tomé and Príncipe41:44,3562,027
Norway11:5,142,286129,201

dos Santos Fonseca Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name dos Santos Fonseca Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname dos Santos Fonseca is found in Brazil more than any other country/territory. It can appear as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name dos Santos Fonseca? popularity and diffusion

It is the 572,911th most prevalent family name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 13,250,083 people. The last name dos Santos Fonseca is predominantly found in The Americas, where 95 percent of dos Santos Fonseca are found; 95 percent are found in South America and 95 percent are found in Luso-South America.

The last name dos Santos Fonseca is most frequently used in Brazil, where it is held by 523 people, or 1 in 409,320. In Brazil dos Santos Fonseca is most numerous in: São Paulo, where 23 percent live, Rio de Janeiro, where 13 percent live and Minas Gerais, where 11 percent live. Besides Brazil dos Santos Fonseca is found in 5 countries. It is also found in Switzerland, where 2 percent live and France, where 1 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
dos Santos Afonseca972/
dos Santos Affonseca951/
dos Santos Fonceca944/
dos Santos-Fonseca941/
de Sa Santos Fonseca891/
dos Santos Voinoski761/
dos Santos Ivaniski701/

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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 dos Santos Fonseca
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