Pañales Surname

640,141st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 475 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Philippines
Highest density in:
Philippines

Pañales Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Pañales Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Philippines4641:218,18633,852
Spain41:11,688,009116,470
Mexico31:41,375,40271,397
Argentina11:42,743,414282,706
Colombia11:47,774,07244,230
Ecuador11:15,905,84650,210
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

The alternate forms: Panales (525) & Panalés (1) are calculated separately.

Pañales Last Name Facts

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

The surname Pañales occurs in The Philippines more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms: Panales or Panalés. Click here to see other potential spellings of Pañales.

How Common Is The Last Name Pañales? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 640,141st most commonly held last name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 15,342,202 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Asia, where 97 percent of Pañales are found; 97 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 97 percent are found in Fil-Southeast Asia.

Pañales is most prevalent in The Philippines, where it is borne by 464 people, or 1 in 218,186. In The Philippines Pañales is primarily concentrated in: Zamboanga Peninsula, where 27 percent live, Central Visayas, where 21 percent live and Bicol, where 15 percent live. Besides The Philippines Pañales is found in 6 countries. It also occurs in Spain, where 1 percent live and Mexico, where 1 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 Pañales
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