Lapeña Surname
Approximately 5,606 people bear this surname
Lapeña Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 3,236 | 1:31,285 | 4,562 |
| Spain | 2,242 | 1:20,853 | 2,276 |
| Argentina | 87 | 1:491,304 | 36,372 |
| Chile | 14 | 1:1,258,320 | 22,898 |
| Venezuela | 8 | 1:3,775,510 | 36,567 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| Ecuador | 3 | 1:5,301,949 | 30,184 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Cayman Islands | 1 | 1:63,893 | 2,384 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
The alternate forms: Lapena (868) are calculated separately.
Lapeña Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lapeña Come From? nationality or country of origin
Lapeña occurs more in The Philippines more than any other country or territory. It may occur as a variant: Lapena. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Lapeña? popularity and diffusion
Lapeña is the 85,981st most commonly held surname world-wide, held by around 1 in 1,299,955 people. It occurs mostly in Asia, where 58 percent of Lapeña are found; 58 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 58 percent are found in Fil-Southeast Asia.
The last name is most numerous in The Philippines, where it is carried by 3,236 people, or 1 in 31,285. In The Philippines Lapeña is mostly concentrated in: Ilocos, where 37 percent are found, National Capital Region, where 14 percent are found and Central Luzon, where 11 percent are found. Excluding The Philippines this last name occurs in 15 countries. It is also common in Spain, where 40 percent are found and Argentina, where 2 percent are found.
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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 Lapeña
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