Paciência Surname

94,490th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 5,043 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Angola
Highest density in:
Angola

Paciência Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Paciência Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Angola4,9301:5,474762
Portugal1041:100,1754,850
Brazil81:26,759,292405,030
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

The alternate forms: Paciencia (8,582) are calculated separately.

Paciência (4,593) may also be a first name.

Paciência Last Name Facts

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

The last name Paciência is carried by more people in Angola than any other country or territory. It can also be found in the variant forms: Paciencia. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Paciência? popularity and diffusion

Paciência is the 94,490th most widely held surname on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 1,445,081 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Paciência live; 98 percent live in Southern Africa and 98 percent live in Luso-Southern Africa. Paciência is also the 101,319th most commonly held first name internationally It is held by 4,593 people.

The surname is most widely held in Angola, where it is held by 4,930 people, or 1 in 5,474. Outside of Angola this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also found in Portugal, where 2 percent live and Brazil, where 0 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Paciencia968,582/
Paciancia892/
Paciencio782/
Paciensia782/
Pasienzia6715/

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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 Paciência
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