Gonçalez Surname
Approximately 132 people bear this surname
Gonçalez Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 125 | 1:1,712,595 | 55,994 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
The alternate forms: Goncalez (2,080) are calculated separately.
Gonçalez Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gonçalez Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gonçalez occurs in Brazil more than any other country/territory. It may be found as a variant: Goncalez. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gonçalez? popularity and diffusion
The surname Gonçalez is the 1,558,593rd most numerous family name on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 55,208,681 people. The last name is mostly found in The Americas, where 98 percent of Gonçalez live; 95 percent live in South America and 95 percent live in Luso-South America.
The surname is most frequent in Brazil, where it is borne by 125 people, or 1 in 1,712,595. In Brazil it is most numerous in: São Paulo, where 79 percent live, Paraná, where 6 percent live and Rio de Janeiro, where 6 percent live. Beside Brazil this surname is found in 5 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 2 percent live and Greece, where 1 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
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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 Gonçalez
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