Sebastião Surname

3,575th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 156,937 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Angola
Highest density in:
Angola

Sebastião Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sebastião Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Angola155,7811:17328
Portugal8961:11,628964
Brazil1421:1,507,56650,366
São Tomé and Príncipe861:2,063246
Mozambique91:3,029,0632,946
South Africa81:6,772,213167,054
United States61:60,409,8221,028,827
England31:18,572,686338,250
China21:683,660,78330,601
Chile11:17,616,47493,597
France11:66,422,722504,397
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448

Sebastião (121,043) may also be a first name.

Sebastião Last Name Facts

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

The surname Sebastião occurs more in Angola more than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Sebastião? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 3,575th most common surname in the world, held by around 1 in 46,436 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Sebastião live; 99 percent live in Southern Africa and 99 percent live in Luso-Southern Africa. It is also the 8,539th most commonly held given name throughout the world. It is borne by 121,043 people.

The surname is most common in Angola, where it is carried by 155,781 people, or 1 in 173. Outside of Angola this last name is found in 12 countries. It also occurs in Portugal, where 1 percent live and Brazil, where 0 percent live.

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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 Sebastião
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