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 is more commonly found in Brazil than any other country/territory. It can also be found as a variant: Souarès. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Souares? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,506,728th most frequently used family name on earth It is held by around 1 in 123,517,727 people. Souares is primarily found in The Americas, where 54 percent of Souares reside; 46 percent reside in South America and 46 percent reside in Luso-South America.
It is most numerous in Brazil, where it is held by 27 people, or 1 in 7,928,679. In Brazil it is most frequent in: Rio de Janeiro, where 26 percent reside, Pará, where 15 percent reside and São Paulo, where 11 percent reside. Excluding Brazil Souares occurs 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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