Mendonça Lopes Surname

8,193,072nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 5 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Cape Verde
Highest density in:
Cape Verde

Mendonça Lopes Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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Mendonça Lopes Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Cape Verde31:176,5474,737
Switzerland21:4,106,458122,336

The alternate forms: Mendonca Lopes (106) are calculated separately.

Mendonça Lopes Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Mendonça Lopes Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Mendonça Lopes is held by more people in Cape Verde than any other country/territory. It can occur in the variant forms: Mendonca Lopes. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Mendonça Lopes? popularity and diffusion

It is the 8,193,072nd most frequently used last name at a global level, held by around 1 in 1,457,509,183 people. Mendonça Lopes is predominantly found in Africa, where 60 percent of Mendonça Lopes live; 60 percent live in West Africa and 60 percent live in Luso-West Africa.

The last name is most common in Cape Verde, where it is borne by 3 people, or 1 in 176,547. In Cape Verde Mendonça Lopes is most frequent in: Santiago, where 67 percent are found and Maio, where 33 percent are found. Besides Cape Verde it occurs in one country. It is also common in Switzerland, where 40 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Mendonca Lopes98106/
Mendonca Lopez861/
Mendonca Lips812/

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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 Mendonça Lopes
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