Gouvea Surname
Approximately 20,419 people bear this surname
Gouvea Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 20,024 | 1:10,691 | 608 |
| United States | 166 | 1:2,183,488 | 137,532 |
| South Africa | 144 | 1:376,234 | 33,811 |
| Argentina | 44 | 1:971,441 | 61,182 |
| Spain | 16 | 1:2,922,002 | 63,384 |
| Venezuela | 8 | 1:3,775,510 | 36,567 |
| Thailand | 6 | 1:11,773,058 | 553,295 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Curaçao | 1 | 1:157,247 | 1,313 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 1:7,236,746 | 16,511 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
The alternate forms: Gouvêa (2,413) are calculated separately.
Gouvea Demographics
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Gouvea Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gouvea Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gouvea occurs most in Brazil. It can also be rendered as: Gouvêa. Click here to see other possible spellings of Gouvea.
How Common Is The Last Name Gouvea? popularity and diffusion
It is the 26,349th most commonly held family name globally It is held by around 1 in 356,900 people. It occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 99 percent of Gouvea reside; 98 percent reside in South America and 98 percent reside in Luso-South America.
This surname is most numerous in Brazil, where it is carried by 20,024 people, or 1 in 10,691. In Brazil Gouvea is most common in: São Paulo, where 30 percent live, Rio de Janeiro, where 23 percent live and Minas Gerais, where 14 percent live. Not including Brazil Gouvea occurs in 13 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 1 percent live and South Africa, where 1 percent live.
Gouvea Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Gouvea has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Gouvea surname rose 16,600 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Gouvea Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Gouvea surname are 46.77% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 100% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Gouvea earn in different countries varies notably. In South Africa they earn 4.69% more than the national average, earning R 248,784 per year and in United States they earn 19.09% less than the national average, earning $34,911 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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Gouvea
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