Peireira Surname
Approximately 248 people bear this surname
Peireira Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 127 | 1:1,685,625 | 55,239 |
| France | 79 | 1:840,794 | 99,796 |
| Portugal | 28 | 1:372,080 | 12,265 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Guyana | 1 | 1:762,221 | 14,420 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 1:1,363,975 | 22,013 |
Peireira Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Peireira Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Peireira occurs most in Brazil. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Peireira? popularity and diffusion
The surname Peireira is the 1,020,242nd most commonly used family name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 29,385,266 people. The last name Peireira occurs mostly in The Americas, where 54 percent of Peireira live; 52 percent live in South America and 51 percent live in Luso-South America.
The last name Peireira is most widely held in Brazil, where it is borne by 127 people, or 1 in 1,685,625. In Brazil Peireira is most numerous in: São Paulo, where 17 percent are found, Bahia, where 15 percent are found and Minas Gerais, where 11 percent are found. Other than Brazil Peireira exists in 11 countries. It also occurs in France, where 32 percent are found and Portugal, where 11 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Peireira
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