Gamelas Surname
Approximately 518 people bear this surname
Gamelas Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 472 | 1:22,073 | 1,514 |
| Brazil | 24 | 1:8,919,764 | 194,226 |
| France | 17 | 1:3,907,219 | 231,005 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
Gamelas Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gamelas Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gamelas is carried by more people in Portugal than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gamelas? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 600,164th most prevalent family name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 14,068,621 people. The surname Gamelas occurs mostly in Europe, where 95 percent of Gamelas live; 91 percent live in Southwestern Europe and 91 percent live in Iberian Europe.
Gamelas is most frequently used in Portugal, where it is carried by 472 people, or 1 in 22,073. Without taking into account Portugal it is found in 7 countries. It is also found in Brazil, where 5 percent reside and France, where 3 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
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