Pontais Surname
Approximately 296 people bear this surname
Pontais Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 282 | 1:235,542 | 36,504 |
| England | 9 | 1:6,190,895 | 170,599 |
| Turkey | 2 | 1:38,910,711 | 171,901 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
Pontais Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pontais Come From? nationality or country of origin
Pontais is more frequently found in France than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Pontais? popularity and diffusion
It is the 902,012th most commonly used family name worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 24,620,088 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 98 percent of Pontais reside; 95 percent reside in Western Europe and 95 percent reside in Gallo-Europe.
The last name is most common in France, where it is borne by 282 people, or 1 in 235,542. In France Pontais is mostly found in: Normandy, where 45 percent live, Brittany, where 38 percent live and Île-de-France, where 12 percent live. Excluding France this last name is found in 5 countries. It is also common in England, where 3 percent live and Turkey, 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
- 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 Pontais
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