Santa Peña Surname

3,274,477th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 36 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Dominican Republic
Highest density in:
Dominican Republic

Santa Peña Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Santa Peña Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Dominican Republic231:453,60614,824
Colombia131:3,674,92915,922

The alternate forms: Santa Pena (4) are calculated separately.

Santa Peña Last Name Facts

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

Santa Peña is held by more people in The Dominican Republic than any other country or territory. It may also appear as a variant: Santa Pena. Click here to see other possible spellings of Santa Peña.

How Common Is The Last Name Santa Peña? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 3,274,477th most frequent surname on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 202,431,831 people. This surname occurs mostly in The Americas, where 100 percent of Santa Peña live; 64 percent live in Caribbean and 64 percent live in Hispano-Caribbean.

The last name is most widely held in The Dominican Republic, where it is borne by 23 people, or 1 in 453,606. Other than The Dominican Republic this last name is found in one country. It also occurs in Colombia, where 36 percent are found.

Santa Peña Last Name Statistics demography

Santa Peña earn a lot less than the average income. In Colombia they earn 41.5% less than the national average, earning $13,280,200 COP 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 Santa Peña
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