Poças Surname
Approximately 973 people bear this surname
Poças Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 925 | 1:11,263 | 946 |
| Brazil | 35 | 1:6,116,409 | 148,801 |
| Angola | 4 | 1:6,747,304 | 6,999 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
The alternate forms: Pocas (928), Počas (2) & Pôças (1) are calculated separately.
Poças Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Poças Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Poças is more commonly found in Portugal than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant: Pocas, Počas or Pôças. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Poças? popularity and diffusion
Poças is the 369,492nd most commonly held last name internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 7,489,770 people. This surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 96 percent of Poças reside; 95 percent reside in Southwestern Europe and 95 percent reside in Iberian Europe.
It is most commonly held in Portugal, where it is borne by 925 people, or 1 in 11,263. Outside of Portugal it occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in Brazil, where 4 percent are found and Angola, where 0 percent are found.
Poças Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Poças has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Poças last name expanded 300 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pocas | 93 | 928 | / |
| Počas | 93 | 2 | / |
| Pôças | 93 | 1 | / |
| Pouças | 91 | 1 | / |
| Poça | 89 | 50 | / |
| Pozas | 80 | 6,242 | / |
| Posas | 80 | 5,746 | / |
| Poçaj | 80 | 36 | / |
| Poços | 80 | 28 | / |
| Pouça | 80 | 1 | / |
| Phocas | 73 | 4,850 | / |
| Pozash | 73 | 1,736 | / |
| Possas | 73 | 681 | / |
| Pocais | 73 | 61 | / |
| Pousas | 73 | 42 | / |
| Pouzas | 73 | 36 | / |
| Poucas | 73 | 31 | / |
| Potzas | 73 | 23 | / |
| Pocias | 73 | 16 | / |
| Pochas | 73 | 10 | / |
| Posaas | 73 | 6 | / |
| Posads | 73 | 5 | / |
| Posias | 73 | 2 | / |
| Poshas | 73 | 1 | / |
| Pocash | 73 | 1 | / |
| Poczas | 73 | 1 | / |
| Pasa | 67 | 64,504 | / |
| Posa | 67 | 8,269 | / |
| Poza | 67 | 7,225 | / |
| Poso | 67 | 6,735 | / |
| Paso | 67 | 5,264 | / |
| Paça | 67 | 1,362 | / |
| Poša | 67 | 776 | / |
| Poço | 67 | 274 | / |
| Poshash | 67 | 217 | / |
| Poşa | 67 | 58 | / |
| Podchas | 67 | 34 | / |
| Paçasız | 67 | 26 | / |
| Podczas | 67 | 21 | / |
| Pousias | 67 | 21 | / |
| Poussas | 67 | 8 | / |
| Poča | 67 | 5 | / |
| Pasó | 67 | 4 | / |
| Pasă | 67 | 4 | / |
| Pasô | 67 | 3 | / |
| Poxa | 67 | 1 | / |
| Poçã | 67 | 1 | / |
| Pôça | 67 | 1 | / |
| Potsais | 67 | 1 | / |
| Phosaas | 67 | 1 | / |
| Pociasz | 67 | 1 | / |
| Pocahas | 67 | 1 | / |
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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
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- 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 Poças
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