Papeira Surname
Approximately 18 people bear this surname
Papeira Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 14 | 1:15,291,024 | 280,658 |
| Greece | 4 | 1:2,769,948 | 101,568 |
Papeira Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Papeira Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Papeira occurs in Brazil more than any other country or territory. It can be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Papeira? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 4,649,889th most widely held surname world-wide, held by around 1 in 404,863,662 people. This surname occurs mostly in The Americas, where 78 percent of Papeira live; 78 percent live in South America and 78 percent live in Luso-South America.
Papeira is most frequent in Brazil, where it is carried by 14 people, or 1 in 15,291,024. In Brazil it is primarily found in: Rio de Janeiro, where 93 percent reside and Federal District, where 7 percent reside. Beside Brazil this last name occurs in one country. It is also found in Greece, where 22 percent reside.
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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 Papeira
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