Payán Surname
Approximately 171 people bear this surname
Payán Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 86 | 1:1,443,328 | 15,900 |
| Spain | 44 | 1:1,062,546 | 38,570 |
| Colombia | 22 | 1:2,171,549 | 12,645 |
| United States | 7 | 1:51,779,848 | 968,877 |
| Nicaragua | 2 | 1:3,010,545 | 7,383 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Cuba | 1 | 1:11,522,716 | 17,380 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1:6,343,888 | 8,415 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Guatemala | 1 | 1:16,082,668 | 12,169 |
| Honduras | 1 | 1:8,816,442 | 9,272 |
The alternate forms: Payan (36,417) & Payàn (4) are calculated separately.
Payán Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Payán Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Payán is borne by more people in Mexico than any other country or territory. It can appear as: Payan or Payàn. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Payán? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,315,412th most numerous last name in the world, borne by around 1 in 42,617,228 people. The last name Payán occurs mostly in The Americas, where 73 percent of Payán live; 54 percent live in North America and 50 percent live in Hispano-North America.
The last name Payán is most commonly held in Mexico, where it is carried by 86 people, or 1 in 1,443,328. In Mexico it is most frequent in: Chihuahua, where 24 percent live, Sinaloa, where 15 percent live and Mexico City, where 15 percent live. Apart from Mexico it occurs in 14 countries. It is also found in Spain, where 26 percent live and Colombia, where 13 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
- 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 Payán
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