Penitente Surname

610,848th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 506 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Brazil
Highest density in:
Brazil

Penitente Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Penitente Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Brazil4821:444,13816,828
Argentina171:2,514,318114,515
Italy31:20,385,563143,117
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
England11:55,718,059489,080
Japan11:127,844,29373,547

Penitente Last Name Facts

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

The last name Penitente is borne by more people in Brazil than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Penitente? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 610,848th most frequently held family name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 14,402,265 people. The last name Penitente is mostly found in The Americas, where 99 percent of Penitente are found; 99 percent are found in South America and 95 percent are found in Luso-South America.

This last name is most commonly held in Brazil, where it is borne by 482 people, or 1 in 444,138. In Brazil Penitente is primarily found in: São Paulo, where 41 percent live, Espírito Santo, where 34 percent live and Paraná, where 9 percent live. Barring Brazil it is found in 5 countries. It also occurs in Argentina, where 3 percent live and Italy, 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 Penitente
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