Nicolás Surname
Approximately 487 people bear this surname
Nicolás Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain | 272 | 1:171,882 | 12,268 |
| Dominican Republic | 77 | 1:135,493 | 5,426 |
| Mexico | 70 | 1:1,773,232 | 17,696 |
| Argentina | 24 | 1:1,780,976 | 92,783 |
| Chile | 6 | 1:2,936,079 | 35,997 |
| Germany | 6 | 1:13,417,576 | 340,600 |
| Brazil | 5 | 1:42,814,866 | 547,158 |
| Guatemala | 5 | 1:3,216,534 | 7,141 |
| Colombia | 3 | 1:15,924,691 | 28,711 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Nicaragua | 2 | 1:3,010,545 | 7,383 |
| Denmark | 2 | 1:2,822,358 | 76,882 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Panama | 1 | 1:3,912,258 | 17,195 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Bolivia | 1 | 1:10,616,434 | 17,077 |
The alternate forms: Nicolas (262,820), Nicolàs (25), Nícolas (9), Nicolaş (1), Nicòlas (1) & Nicólas (1) are calculated separately.
Nicolás (5,838) may also be a first name.
Nicolás Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nicolás Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Nicolás is found most frequently in Spain. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Nicolas, Nicolàs, Nícolas, Nicolaş, Nicòlas or Nicólas. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Nicolás? popularity and diffusion
The surname Nicolás is the 628,294th most widespread last name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 14,964,160 people. It occurs mostly in Europe, where 59 percent of Nicolás reside; 56 percent reside in Southwestern Europe and 56 percent reside in Iberian Europe. Nicolás is also the 87,237th most frequent first name internationally It is held by 5,838 people.
The surname is most commonly occurring in Spain, where it is carried by 272 people, or 1 in 171,882. In Spain Nicolás is mostly concentrated in: Murcia, where 36 percent live, Madrid, where 21 percent live and Catalonia, where 16 percent live. Excluding Spain Nicolás exists in 23 countries. It is also common in The Dominican Republic, where 16 percent live and Mexico, where 14 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
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