Portalés Surname

4,116,508th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 23 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Spain
Highest density in:
Spain

Portalés Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Portalés Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Spain221:2,125,09354,547
Germany11:80,505,459560,955

The alternate forms: Portales (16,926) & Portalès (14) are calculated separately.

Portalés Last Name Facts

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

The last name Portalés is more frequently found in Spain than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms: Portales or Portalès. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Portalés? popularity and diffusion

The surname Portalés is the 4,116,508th most frequent family name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 316,849,822 people. The surname is mostly found in Europe, where 100 percent of Portalés reside; 96 percent reside in Southwestern Europe and 96 percent reside in Iberian Europe.

It is most common in Spain, where it is borne by 22 people, or 1 in 2,125,093. In Spain Portalés is primarily concentrated in: Valencian Community, where 82 percent reside, Murcia, where 14 percent reside and Catalonia, where 5 percent reside. Not including Spain this last name exists in one country. It is also common in Germany, where 4 percent reside.

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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 Portalés
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