Portera Surname

187,801st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 2,253 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Malta

Portera Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Portera Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States9331:388,48834,165
Italy6531:93,65516,129
Philippines4361:232,19835,476
Brazil881:2,432,66374,473
Argentina421:1,017,70063,321
Spain291:1,612,13947,760
Malta181:23,9041,289
France131:5,109,440259,941
Belgium121:958,05473,966
Colombia111:4,343,09717,306
Switzerland91:912,54658,198
England31:18,572,686338,250
Germany21:40,252,730481,636
Japan11:127,844,29373,547
Costa Rica11:4,780,06913,345
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
Canada11:36,845,591464,108

The alternate forms: Porterà (1) & Pòrtera (1) are calculated separately.

Portera Last Name Facts

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

Portera is borne by more people in The United States than any other country or territory. It may be found as: Porterà or Pòrtera. Click here to see other possible spellings of Portera.

How Common Is The Last Name Portera? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 187,801st most frequently occurring family name globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 3,234,597 people. The surname Portera is predominantly found in The Americas, where 47 percent of Portera are found; 41 percent are found in North America and 41 percent are found in Anglo-North America.

This surname is most widely held in The United States, where it is held by 933 people, or 1 in 388,488. In The United States Portera is primarily concentrated in: New York, where 18 percent live, California, where 11 percent live and Alabama, where 11 percent live. Aside from The United States this last name exists in 16 countries. It is also common in Italy, where 29 percent live and The Philippines, where 19 percent live.

Portera Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Portera surname are 42.6% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 95.83% being registered with the political party.

The amount Portera earn in different countries varies markedly. In Italy they earn 14.15% less than the national average, earning €25,780 per year; in Colombia they earn 21.83% less than the national average, earning $17,746,000 COP per year and in United States they earn 14.28% more than the national average, earning $49,310 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 Portera
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