Souares Surname
Approximately 59 people bear this surname
Souares Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 27 | 1:7,928,679 | 178,836 |
| Benin | 6 | 1:1,722,600 | 61,769 |
| France | 6 | 1:11,070,454 | 349,096 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Senegal | 3 | 1:4,859,781 | 6,822 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1:2,737,638 | 105,941 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
The alternate forms: Souarès (1) are calculated separately.
Souares Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Souares Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Souares occurs more in Brazil more than any other country/territory. It can appear as: Souarès. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Souares? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,506,728th most commonly used last name globally. It is borne by around 1 in 123,517,727 people. This last name is primarily found in The Americas, where 54 percent of Souares are found; 46 percent are found in South America and 46 percent are found in Luso-South America.
The last name Souares is most commonly held in Brazil, where it is carried by 27 people, or 1 in 7,928,679. In Brazil Souares is mostly found in: Rio de Janeiro, where 26 percent reside, Pará, where 15 percent reside and São Paulo, where 11 percent reside. Outside of Brazil it is found in 12 countries. It also occurs in Benin, where 10 percent reside and France, where 10 percent reside.
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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 Souares
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