Falfan Surname

176,240th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 2,429 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Mexico
Highest density in:
Mexico

Falfan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Falfan Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Mexico1,6591:74,8203,250
Argentina2971:143,91712,185
Venezuela1731:174,5905,070
Chile1371:128,5874,557
United States601:6,040,982292,121
Romania511:393,68432,593
Paraguay421:172,3033,394
Brazil41:53,518,583632,670
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Costa Rica11:4,780,06913,345
England11:55,718,059489,080
Greece11:11,079,790145,225
Peru11:31,784,12364,452
Spain11:46,752,036156,870

The alternate forms: Falfán (13), Fâlfan (4) & Falfàn (1) are calculated separately.

Falfan Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Falfan Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Falfan is held by more people in Mexico than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as a variant: Falfán, Fâlfan or Falfàn. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Falfan? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 176,240th most prevalent last name worldwide, held by around 1 in 3,000,225 people. The surname Falfan is mostly found in The Americas, where 98 percent of Falfan live; 71 percent live in North America and 68 percent live in Hispano-North America.

The surname Falfan is most frequently held in Mexico, where it is held by 1,659 people, or 1 in 74,820. In Mexico Falfan is most frequent in: Veracruz, where 65 percent reside, Puebla, where 8 percent reside and Mexico City, where 7 percent reside. Excluding Mexico this last name exists in 13 countries. It also occurs in Argentina, where 12 percent reside and Venezuela, where 7 percent reside.

Falfan Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States Falfan are 13.44% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 66.67% registered with the political party.

Falfan earn somewhat less than the average income. In United States they earn 8.3% less than the national average, earning $39,566 USD per year.

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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 Falfan
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