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 or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms: Menezes, Menezês or Menezès. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Menêzes? popularity and diffusion
The surname Menêzes is the 5,587,209th most frequently held last name internationally, borne by around 1 in 607,295,493 people. The last name occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 100 percent of Menêzes are found; 92 percent are found in South America and 92 percent are found in Luso-South America.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Brazil, where it is carried by 11 people, or 1 in 19,461,303. In Brazil Menêzes is primarily found in: Bahia, where 36 percent are found, São Paulo, where 18 percent are found and Ceará, where 9 percent are found. Besides Brazil this surname occurs in one country. It also occurs in The United States, where 8 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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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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