Palheira Surname
Approximately 153 people bear this surname
Palheira Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 142 | 1:73,368 | 3,778 |
| Brazil | 7 | 1:30,582,047 | 441,004 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
Palheira Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Palheira Come From? nationality or country of origin
Palheira occurs more in Portugal more than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Palheira? popularity and diffusion
Palheira is the 1,415,499th most common last name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 47,631,019 people. The last name Palheira is mostly found in Europe, where 95 percent of Palheira live; 93 percent live in Southwestern Europe and 93 percent live in Iberian Europe.
Palheira is most widespread in Portugal, where it is held by 142 people, or 1 in 73,368. Not including Portugal this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also found in Brazil, where 5 percent are found and France, where 2 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
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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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