La Via Surname

711,133rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 412 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Italy
Highest density in:
Italy

La Via Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

La Via Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Italy2531:241,72632,841
Argentina1031:414,98531,631
Chile151:1,174,43221,998
United States141:25,889,924709,614
Netherlands81:2,110,89788,902
Brazil51:42,814,866547,158
Canada51:7,369,118289,406
New Zealand51:905,66545,114
England41:13,929,515290,718
Spain31:15,584,012120,866
France21:33,211,361423,184
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
Hungary11:9,816,27773,288
Luxembourg11:580,54215,155

The alternate forms: La Vía (2) are calculated separately.

La Via Last Name Facts

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

The surname La Via is carried by more people in Italy than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as: La Vía. Click here for further potential spellings of La Via.

How Common Is The Last Name La Via? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 711,133rd most widely held last name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 17,688,218 people. The surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 66 percent of La Via live; 62 percent live in Southwestern Europe and 61 percent live in Italic Europe.

The last name is most frequent in Italy, where it is carried by 253 people, or 1 in 241,726. In Italy it is most numerous in: Sicily, where 39 percent live, Campania, where 25 percent live and Lazio, where 19 percent live. Excluding Italy this surname occurs in 13 countries. It is also common in Argentina, where 25 percent live and Chile, where 4 percent live.

La Via Last Name Statistics demography

La Via earn more than double the average income. In Italy they earn 137.32% more than the national average, earning €71,268 per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
La Vía942/
La Bia831/
La-Via831/
La Fia831/
Le Vias771/
La Bhuiya6796/
La Fea677/
La Bya671/
Le Veau6223/
La Bhaiyo531/
Le Veo5025/
Le Véo501/

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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 La Via
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