Mendoça Surname
Approximately 1,902 people bear this surname
Mendoça Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angola | 1,775 | 1:15,205 | 1,826 |
| Portugal | 75 | 1:138,910 | 6,177 |
| Brazil | 35 | 1:6,116,409 | 148,801 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 5 | 1:35,485 | 1,708 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Cape Verde | 1 | 1:529,642 | 6,792 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
The alternate forms: Mendoca (767) & Mendóça (1) are calculated separately.
Mendoça Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mendoça Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mendoça (Marathi: मेन्डोसा) is borne by more people in Angola than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms: Mendoca or Mendóça. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mendoça? popularity and diffusion
It is the 215,889th most commonly held last name world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 3,831,517 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 94 percent of Mendoça are found; 93 percent are found in Southern Africa and 93 percent are found in Luso-Southern Africa.
The surname is most widespread in Angola, where it is borne by 1,775 people, or 1 in 15,205. Aside from Angola this surname occurs in 11 countries. It also occurs in Portugal, where 4 percent reside and Brazil, where 2 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Mendoça Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Mendoça in the Marathi language | ||
| मेन्डोसा | mendosa | 80 |
| मॅन्डोसा | mendosa | 10 |
| मेनडोसा | menadosa | 5 |
| मॅडोका | medoka | 5 |
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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 Mendoça
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