Magalães Surname
Approximately 64 people bear this surname
Magalães Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 28 | 1:372,080 | 12,265 |
| Russia | 16 | 1:9,007,691 | 311,782 |
| Brazil | 15 | 1:14,271,622 | 267,944 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Magalaes (57) are calculated separately.
Magalães Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Magalães Come From? nationality or country of origin
Magalães is held by more people in Portugal than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as: Magalaes. For other possible spellings of Magalães click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Magalães? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,394,033rd most commonly held family name in the world, held by around 1 in 113,867,905 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 69 percent of Magalães live; 44 percent live in Southwestern Europe and 44 percent live in Iberian Europe.
The surname Magalães is most frequent in Portugal, where it is carried by 28 people, or 1 in 372,080. Other than Portugal it occurs in 7 countries. It is also found in Russia, where 25 percent are found and Brazil, where 23 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 Magalães
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