Pocas Surname
Approximately 928 people bear this surname
Pocas Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 600 | 1:356,791 | 13,662 |
| Portugal | 132 | 1:78,926 | 3,983 |
| France | 110 | 1:603,843 | 79,953 |
| Switzerland | 36 | 1:228,137 | 19,301 |
| United States | 20 | 1:18,122,947 | 588,089 |
| Germany | 7 | 1:11,500,780 | 305,602 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5 | 1:1,630,743 | 129,019 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Guatemala | 1 | 1:16,082,668 | 12,169 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
The alternate forms: Poças (973), Počas (2) & Pôças (1) are calculated separately.
Pocas (13) may also be a first name.
Pocas Demographics
Average Pocas Salary in
United States
$37,691 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Pocas Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pocas Come From? nationality or country of origin
Pocas occurs in Brazil more than any other country or territory. It can also appear in the variant forms: Poças, Počas or Pôças. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Pocas? popularity and diffusion
Pocas is the 383,389th most frequently held surname globally It is held by around 1 in 7,852,959 people. The last name occurs mostly in The Americas, where 67 percent of Pocas live; 65 percent live in South America and 65 percent live in Luso-South America. It is also the 3,159,357th most commonly held first name in the world, held by 13 people.
Pocas is most frequently held in Brazil, where it is borne by 600 people, or 1 in 356,791. In Brazil Pocas is primarily concentrated in: São Paulo, where 30 percent live, Paraná, where 26 percent live and Rio de Janeiro, where 18 percent live. Aside from Brazil Pocas occurs in 17 countries. It is also found in Portugal, where 14 percent live and France, where 12 percent live.
Pocas Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Pocas surname are 46.77% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 100% registered with the political party.
Pocas earn somewhat less than the average income. In United States they earn 12.65% less than the national average, earning $37,691 USD per year.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Pocas
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