Formación Surname

1,544,715th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 134 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Spain
Highest density in:
Spain

Formación Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Formación Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Spain1181:396,20421,717
Mexico41:31,031,55163,627
Argentina21:21,371,707253,176
England21:27,859,030389,889
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
Chile11:17,616,47493,597
Colombia11:47,774,07244,230
Costa Rica11:4,780,06913,345
Cuba11:11,522,71617,380
Peru11:31,784,12364,452
Venezuela11:30,204,07785,459

The alternate forms: Formacion (980) & Formaciòn (2) are calculated separately.

Formación (13) may also be a first name.

Formación Last Name Facts

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

Formación occurs most in Spain. It can also be rendered in the variant forms: Formacion or Formaciòn. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Formación? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 1,544,715th most commonly occurring family name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 54,384,671 people. The surname Formación is mostly found in Europe, where 90 percent of Formación reside; 88 percent reside in Southwestern Europe and 88 percent reside in Iberian Europe. Formación is also the 3,159,357th most frequent first name throughout the world It is held by 13 people.

The last name is most commonly used in Spain, where it is borne by 118 people, or 1 in 396,204. In Spain it is most frequent in: Andalusia, where 25 percent reside, Madrid, where 17 percent reside and Valencian Community, where 11 percent reside. Besides Spain this last name exists in 10 countries. It is also common in Mexico, where 3 percent reside and Argentina, where 1 percent reside.

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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 Formación
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