Luísa Surname
Approximately 5,453 people bear this surname
Luísa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 2,170 | 1:4,801 | 511 |
| Angola | 1,578 | 1:17,103 | 2,033 |
| Brazil | 441 | 1:485,429 | 18,339 |
| Italy | 395 | 1:154,827 | 24,084 |
| United States | 109 | 1:3,325,311 | 189,554 |
| Spain | 109 | 1:428,918 | 22,835 |
| Mexico | 106 | 1:1,171,002 | 14,323 |
| Israel | 70 | 1:122,252 | 13,395 |
| Dominican Republic | 69 | 1:151,202 | 5,897 |
| Mozambique | 49 | 1:556,359 | 1,404 |
| Chile | 33 | 1:533,833 | 13,415 |
| Argentina | 22 | 1:1,942,882 | 97,983 |
| Germany | 22 | 1:3,659,339 | 158,771 |
| France | 21 | 1:3,162,987 | 209,042 |
| England | 19 | 1:2,932,529 | 101,561 |
| Latvia | 17 | 1:120,591 | 17,235 |
| Russia | 17 | 1:8,477,827 | 301,506 |
| Canada | 16 | 1:2,302,849 | 139,666 |
| Colombia | 13 | 1:3,674,929 | 15,922 |
| Switzerland | 10 | 1:821,292 | 53,588 |
| Indonesia | 10 | 1:13,224,919 | 434,432 |
| Poland | 10 | 1:3,800,875 | 132,137 |
| Australia | 9 | 1:2,999,522 | 116,751 |
| Philippines | 7 | 1:14,462,603 | 238,248 |
| China | 6 | 1:227,886,928 | 11,701 |
| Venezuela | 5 | 1:6,040,815 | 47,898 |
| Bolivia | 5 | 1:2,123,287 | 6,830 |
| Guatemala | 5 | 1:3,216,534 | 7,141 |
| Slovenia | 5 | 1:497,535 | 21,006 |
| Fiji | 4 | 1:223,598 | 2,635 |
| Cape Verde | 4 | 1:132,410 | 4,291 |
| Belarus | 4 | 1:2,375,265 | 105,497 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| Singapore | 4 | 1:1,376,926 | 28,409 |
| Belgium | 4 | 1:2,874,161 | 111,046 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Uruguay | 4 | 1:857,940 | 31,713 |
| Romania | 4 | 1:5,019,468 | 62,922 |
| Nicaragua | 3 | 1:2,007,030 | 6,490 |
| Costa Rica | 3 | 1:1,593,356 | 8,177 |
| Panama | 3 | 1:1,304,086 | 13,647 |
| Honduras | 3 | 1:2,938,814 | 7,190 |
| El Salvador | 3 | 1:2,114,629 | 5,401 |
| Ecuador | 3 | 1:5,301,949 | 30,184 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| Puerto Rico | 2 | 1:1,775,070 | 6,602 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Austria | 2 | 1:4,257,718 | 99,224 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Kazakhstan | 2 | 1:8,841,248 | 174,813 |
| Finland | 2 | 1:2,748,351 | 72,663 |
| Turkey | 2 | 1:38,910,711 | 171,901 |
| Denmark | 2 | 1:2,822,358 | 76,882 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Armenia | 1 | 1:2,930,180 | 22,770 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Cuba | 1 | 1:11,522,716 | 17,380 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1 | 1:1,135,674 | 984 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Laos | 1 | 1:6,588,323 | 1,961 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Moldova | 1 | 1:3,561,368 | 78,271 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 1:7,236,746 | 16,511 |
The alternate forms: Luisa (5,957) are calculated separately.
Luísa (29,390) may also be a first name.
Luísa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Luísa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Luísa is found most frequently in Portugal. It can also appear as a variant: Luisa. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Luísa? popularity and diffusion
Luísa is the 88,119th most widely held family name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 1,336,429 people. The surname is primarily found in Europe, where 52 percent of Luísa live; 49 percent live in Southwestern Europe and 42 percent live in Iberian Europe. Luísa is also the 28,324th most frequently used first name internationally. It is borne by 29,390 people.
The surname Luísa is most prevalent in Portugal, where it is held by 2,170 people, or 1 in 4,801. Besides Portugal Luísa is found in 80 countries. It is also found in Angola, where 29 percent reside and Brazil, where 8 percent reside.
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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
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