Peresia Surname

4,649,889th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 18 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Papua New Guinea
Highest density in:
Papua New Guinea

Peresia Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Peresia Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Papua New Guinea141:582,40870,330
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Kenya11:46,179,900103,372
Uganda11:39,039,279258,887
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States31:16,739,561595,711

Peresia (211) may also be a first name.

Peresia Last Name Facts

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

Peresia is found most frequently in Papua New Guinea. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Peresia? popularity and diffusion

The surname Peresia is the 4,649,889th most frequently held surname on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 404,863,662 people. The surname is predominantly found in Oceania, where 78 percent of Peresia are found; 78 percent are found in Oceania Islands and 78 percent are found in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 622,565th most frequently held forename in the world, borne by 211 people.

This surname is most widely held in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 14 people, or 1 in 582,408. In Papua New Guinea Peresia is mostly found in: Bougainville, where 100 percent live. Excluding Papua New Guinea it is found in 4 countries. It is also found in Brazil, where 6 percent live and Kenya, where 6 percent live.

Peresia Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Peresia has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Peresia surname declined 67 percent between 1880 and 2014.

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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 Peresia
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