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
The last name Selvas is more frequently found in Mexico than any other country/territory. It can also occur as a variant: Selvás. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Selvas? popularity and diffusion
It is the 250,767th most frequently used last name globally, held by approximately 1 in 4,609,453 people. It occurs mostly in The Americas, where 94 percent of Selvas are found; 89 percent are found in North America and 87 percent are found in Hispano-North America. It is also the 1,116,575th most frequent forename worldwide It is held by 75 people.
The last name Selvas is most numerous in Mexico, where it is held by 1,371 people, or 1 in 90,537. In Mexico Selvas is most frequent in: Chiapas, where 74 percent are found, Mexico City, where 5 percent are found and México, where 5 percent are found. Without taking into account Mexico Selvas exists in 16 countries. It also occurs in Spain, where 5 percent are found and Argentina, where 3 percent are found.
Selvas Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Selvas has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the surname grew 410 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Selvas Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Selvas surname are 21.77% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 75% being registered with 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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