Palabras Surname

1,849,867th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 100 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Philippines
Highest density in:
Philippines

Palabras Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Palabras Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Philippines881:1,150,43492,307
Argentina21:21,371,707253,176
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
Belarus11:9,501,059159,228
Chile11:17,616,47493,597
Colombia11:47,774,07244,230
Costa Rica11:4,780,06913,345
Mexico11:124,126,205103,776
Russia11:144,123,056881,408
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915

Palabras Last Name Facts

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

The surname Palabras is most common in The Philippines. It can occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Palabras? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 1,849,867th most frequent last name at a global level, borne by around 1 in 72,875,459 people. The surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 89 percent of Palabras are found; 89 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 88 percent are found in Fil-Southeast Asia.

This last name is most commonly used in The Philippines, where it is held by 88 people, or 1 in 1,150,434. In The Philippines Palabras is primarily concentrated in: Davao Region, where 76 percent live, Eastern Visayas, where 9 percent live and Ilocos, where 6 percent live. Apart from The Philippines this last name is found in 10 countries. It is also common in Argentina, where 2 percent live and The United States, where 2 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 Palabras
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