Smelan Surname

2,689,253rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 52 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Brazil
Highest density in:
Brazil

Smelan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Smelan Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Brazil451:4,757,207124,005
United States71:51,779,848968,877
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England71:3,482,19689,582
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:50,218,684817,899

Smelan Last Name Facts

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

The surname Smelan is held by more people in Brazil than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Smelan? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 2,689,253rd most numerous last name throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 140,145,114 people. The last name Smelan is mostly found in The Americas, where 100 percent of Smelan live; 87 percent live in South America and 87 percent live in Luso-South America.

Smelan is most frequently used in Brazil, where it is held by 45 people, or 1 in 4,757,207. In Brazil it is most prevalent in: São Paulo, where 98 percent are found and Paraná, where 2 percent are found. Besides Brazil it occurs in one country. It also occurs in The United States, where 13 percent are found.

Smelan Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Smelan has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Smelan last name rose 700 percent between 1880 and 2014.

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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 Smelan
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