Empeño Surname
Approximately 1,738 people bear this surname
Empeño Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 1,733 | 1:58,418 | 9,824 |
| Mexico | 2 | 1:62,063,102 | 83,384 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Empeno (162) are calculated separately.
Empeño Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Empeño Come From? nationality or country of origin
Empeño has its highest incidence in The Philippines. It may be found as a variant: Empeno. Click here to see other potential spellings of Empeño.
How Common Is The Last Name Empeño? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 232,309th most prevalent surname worldwide, held by around 1 in 4,193,064 people. Empeño is mostly found in Asia, where 100 percent of Empeño live; 100 percent live in Southeast Asia and 100 percent live in Fil-Southeast Asia.
It is most widespread in The Philippines, where it is borne by 1,733 people, or 1 in 58,418. In The Philippines it is primarily concentrated in: Calabarzon, where 34 percent live, Central Luzon, where 25 percent live and National Capital Region, where 12 percent live. Not including The Philippines this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also common in Mexico, where 0 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
- 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 Empeño
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