Menêzes Surname
Approximately 12 people bear this surname
Menêzes Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 11 | 1:19,461,303 | 329,560 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Menezes (290,444), Menezês (1) & Menezès (1) are calculated separately.
Menêzes Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Menêzes Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Menêzes occurs more in Brazil more than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms: Menezes, Menezês or Menezès. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Menêzes? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 5,587,209th most frequently occurring last name in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 607,295,493 people. The last name Menêzes is mostly found in The Americas, where 100 percent of Menêzes reside; 92 percent reside in South America and 92 percent reside in Luso-South America.
The last name is most common in Brazil, where it is carried by 11 people, or 1 in 19,461,303. In Brazil Menêzes is most frequent in: Bahia, where 36 percent live, São Paulo, where 18 percent live and Ceará, where 9 percent live. Barring Brazil Menêzes occurs in one country. It is also found in The United States, where 8 percent live.
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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 Menêzes
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