Gomes Fortes Surname
Approximately 28 people bear this surname
Gomes Fortes Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cape Verde | 16 | 1:33,103 | 1,244 |
| Brazil | 10 | 1:21,407,433 | 350,627 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
Gomes Fortes Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gomes Fortes Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gomes Fortes occurs most in Cape Verde. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Gomes Fortes.
How Common Is The Last Name Gomes Fortes? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 3,730,171st most frequently occurring surname on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 260,269,497 people. The last name Gomes Fortes occurs mostly in Africa, where 57 percent of Gomes Fortes live; 57 percent live in West Africa and 57 percent live in Luso-West Africa.
The last name Gomes Fortes is most commonly used in Cape Verde, where it is borne by 16 people, or 1 in 33,103. In Cape Verde it is most numerous in: São Vicente, where 69 percent are found, Santo Antão, where 19 percent are found and Fogo, where 6 percent are found. Without taking into account Cape Verde Gomes Fortes is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Brazil, where 36 percent are found and Luxembourg, where 4 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gomes-Fortes | 92 | 2 | / |
| Gomes Fretez | 83 | 1 | / |
| Gomes Freitas | 80 | 362 | / |
| Gomes Furtuoso | 77 | 1 | / |
| Gomes Frattezi | 77 | 1 | / |
| Gomez Fredes | 75 | 1 | / |
| Gomes-Freitas | 72 | 1 | / |
| Gomez Freitas | 72 | 1 | / |
| Gomes Frutuoso | 69 | 16 | / |
| Gomes Virtuoso | 69 | 3 | / |
| Gomes Virtuozo | 62 | 1 | / |
| Gomes Vieira de Sa | 60 | 1 | / |
| Gomes Vieira Dias | 55 | 1 | / |
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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 Gomes Fortes
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