Selvas Surname
Approximately 1,581 people bear this surname
Selvas Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 1,371 | 1:90,537 | 3,571 |
| Spain | 79 | 1:591,798 | 27,792 |
| Argentina | 42 | 1:1,017,700 | 63,321 |
| United States | 41 | 1:8,840,462 | 379,649 |
| Brazil | 12 | 1:17,839,528 | 311,080 |
| India | 9 | 1:85,229,487 | 684,495 |
| Tanzania | 9 | 1:5,882,401 | 60,754 |
| Guatemala | 3 | 1:5,360,889 | 8,925 |
| Honduras | 3 | 1:2,938,814 | 7,190 |
| Nicaragua | 3 | 1:2,007,030 | 6,490 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Costa Rica | 2 | 1:2,390,034 | 10,205 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Andorra | 1 | 1:83,838 | 2,381 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 10 | 1:5,021,868 | 210,693 |
The alternate forms: Selvás (1) are calculated separately.
Selvas (75) may also be a first name.
Selvas Demographics
Selvas Political Affiliation
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Selvas Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Selvas Come From? nationality or country of origin
Selvas is found most in Mexico. It may occur as a variant: Selvás. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Selvas? popularity and diffusion
It is the 250,767th most commonly held surname on earth, held by around 1 in 4,609,453 people. The last name Selvas is mostly found in The Americas, where 94 percent of Selvas live; 89 percent live in North America and 87 percent live in Hispano-North America. Selvas is also the 1,116,575th most commonly held first name on earth, held by 75 people.
Selvas is most widely held in Mexico, where it is carried by 1,371 people, or 1 in 90,537. In Mexico Selvas is most common in: Chiapas, where 74 percent live, Mexico City, where 5 percent live and México, where 5 percent live. Outside of Mexico it is found in 16 countries. It also occurs in Spain, where 5 percent live and Argentina, where 3 percent live.
Selvas Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Selvas has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Selvas surname increased 410 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Selvas Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Selvas last name are 21.77% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 75% being registered to vote for the political party.
Selvas earn notably less less than the average income. In United States they earn 21.1% less than the national average, earning $34,045 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 Selvas
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