Leitão Surname
Approximately 13,479 people bear this surname
Leitão Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angola | 8,874 | 1:3,041 | 478 |
| Portugal | 4,086 | 1:2,550 | 347 |
| Brazil | 343 | 1:624,123 | 23,177 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 67 | 1:2,648 | 284 |
| Cape Verde | 44 | 1:12,037 | 419 |
| South Africa | 17 | 1:3,186,924 | 115,449 |
| England | 11 | 1:5,065,278 | 148,650 |
| Germany | 8 | 1:10,063,182 | 283,807 |
| Mozambique | 4 | 1:6,815,392 | 4,272 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Spain | 3 | 1:15,584,012 | 120,866 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Suriname | 1 | 1:552,616 | 9,664 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| Macau | 1 | 1:601,630 | 1,582 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
The alternate forms: Leitao (40,631), Leitâo (1), Leitáo (1), Leitào (1), Leitäo (1), Leitaõ (4) & Leitaó (1) are calculated separately.
Leitão Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Leitão Come From? nationality or country of origin
Leitão occurs in Angola more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant: Leitao, Leitâo, Leitáo, Leitào, Leitäo, Leitaõ or Leitaó. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Leitão? popularity and diffusion
The surname Leitão is the 38,996th most numerous family name worldwide, held by around 1 in 540,659 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 67 percent of Leitão reside; 66 percent reside in Southern Africa and 66 percent reside in Luso-Southern Africa.
Leitão is most common in Angola, where it is borne by 8,874 people, or 1 in 3,041. Apart from Angola Leitão exists in 26 countries. It also occurs in Portugal, where 30 percent are found and Brazil, where 3 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 Leitão
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