Postay Surname
Approximately 306 people bear this surname
Postay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 221 | 1:968,662 | 34,434 |
| Argentina | 72 | 1:593,659 | 42,221 |
| Uruguay | 11 | 1:311,978 | 20,848 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
Postay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Postay Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Postay is most common in Brazil. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Postay? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 881,213th most widespread family name on a global scale, held by around 1 in 23,815,510 people. The last name Postay is mostly found in The Americas, where 100 percent of Postay live; 99 percent live in South America and 72 percent live in Luso-South America.
Postay is most frequent in Brazil, where it is held by 221 people, or 1 in 968,662. In Brazil Postay is mostly found in: Rio Grande do Sul, where 73 percent are found, Espírito Santo, where 16 percent are found and Mato Grosso do Sul, where 3 percent are found. Besides Brazil it occurs in 4 countries. It is also found in Argentina, where 24 percent are found and Uruguay, where 4 percent are found.
Postay Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Postay has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Postay surname contracted 50 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Postay
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