Spósito Surname

2,034,059th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 85 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Brazil
Highest density in:
Uruguay

Spósito Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Spósito Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Brazil671:3,195,13992,032
Uruguay61:571,96026,877
Argentina31:14,247,805235,975
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
Venezuela31:10,068,02660,591
Spain21:23,376,018128,922
Portugal11:10,418,24125,048

The alternate forms: Sposito (9,531) are calculated separately.

Spósito Last Name Facts

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

The surname Spósito is held by more people in Brazil than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as: Sposito. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Spósito? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 2,034,059th most widely held last name in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 85,735,834 people. The last name occurs mostly in The Americas, where 96 percent of Spósito live; 93 percent live in South America and 79 percent live in Luso-South America.

The last name is most numerous in Brazil, where it is held by 67 people, or 1 in 3,195,139. In Brazil Spósito is primarily found in: São Paulo, where 61 percent live, Minas Gerais, where 13 percent live and Bahia, where 6 percent live. Without taking into account Brazil this last name occurs in 6 countries. It also occurs in Uruguay, where 7 percent live and Argentina, where 4 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Sposito959,531/
Spositto80118/
Spossito806/
D'sposito752/
Spossitto751/
Sposeto71104/
Spozito7199/
Sposita7128/
Spocito719/
Spozzito6727/
Spozitou676/
Spozitos672/
Spozitto671/
Spashita671/
Spozzitto636/
Spozyto575/
Sposetta5329/
Spaajita531/
Spozetos531/
Spoiseta530/

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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 Spósito
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