Perpétua Surname
Approximately 134 people bear this surname
Perpétua Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 104 | 1:100,175 | 4,850 |
| Brazil | 15 | 1:14,271,622 | 267,944 |
| Cape Verde | 6 | 1:88,274 | 2,986 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 1 | 1:177,423 | 3,686 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Perpetua (3,391) & Perpètua (1) are calculated separately.
Perpétua (321) may also be a first name.
Perpétua Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Perpétua Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Perpétua occurs more in Portugal more than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms: Perpetua or Perpètua. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Perpétua? popularity and diffusion
Perpétua is the 1,544,715th most commonly used family name on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 54,384,671 people. It occurs predominantly in Europe, where 81 percent of Perpétua are found; 78 percent are found in Southwestern Europe and 78 percent are found in Iberian Europe. Perpétua is also the 489,856th most widely held first name on earth It is held by 321 people.
This last name is most frequent in Portugal, where it is borne by 104 people, or 1 in 100,175. Besides Portugal this last name occurs in 9 countries. It is also found in Brazil, where 11 percent are found and Cape Verde, where 4 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 Perpétua
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