Española Surname
Approximately 24,129 people bear this surname
Española Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 24,090 | 1:4,202 | 332 |
| Spain | 14 | 1:3,339,431 | 67,428 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| Argentina | 2 | 1:21,371,707 | 253,176 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Mexico | 2 | 1:62,063,102 | 83,384 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1:6,343,888 | 8,415 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
The alternate forms: Espanola (1,184) & Espaňola (6) are calculated separately.
Española Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Española Come From? nationality or country of origin
Española occurs most in The Philippines. It can appear as a variant: Espanola or Espaňola. For other possible spellings of Española click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Española? popularity and diffusion
It is the 22,515th most frequently occurring family name on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 302,024 people. The last name Española is mostly found in Asia, where 100 percent of Española live; 100 percent live in Southeast Asia and 99 percent live in Fil-Southeast Asia.
The surname is most widespread in The Philippines, where it is held by 24,090 people, or 1 in 4,202. In The Philippines Española is most numerous in: Western Visayas, where 37 percent live, Soccsksargen, where 13 percent live and National Capital Region, where 10 percent live. Aside from The Philippines this surname occurs in 17 countries. It is also found in Spain, where 0 percent live and The United States, 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 Española
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