Valença Surname
Approximately 1,722 people bear this surname
Valença Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 774 | 1:276,582 | 10,651 |
| Portugal | 557 | 1:18,704 | 1,333 |
| Saudi Arabia | 159 | 1:194,062 | 29,524 |
| United States | 58 | 1:6,249,292 | 299,206 |
| Philippines | 32 | 1:3,163,694 | 143,904 |
| Andorra | 27 | 1:3,105 | 589 |
| Singapore | 17 | 1:323,983 | 13,856 |
| Australia | 13 | 1:2,076,592 | 93,242 |
| Italy | 10 | 1:6,115,669 | 111,715 |
| Russia | 10 | 1:14,412,306 | 394,810 |
| Canada | 9 | 1:4,093,955 | 205,175 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Netherlands | 3 | 1:5,629,059 | 132,535 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Czechia | 3 | 1:3,544,490 | 144,714 |
| Colombia | 3 | 1:15,924,691 | 28,711 |
| Uruguay | 3 | 1:1,143,919 | 35,564 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Peru | 2 | 1:15,892,062 | 51,966 |
| Oman | 2 | 1:1,843,986 | 9,590 |
| Mexico | 2 | 1:62,063,102 | 83,384 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Belize | 1 | 1:355,474 | 3,977 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| East Timor | 1 | 1:1,215,928 | 507 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Palau | 1 | 1:21,643 | 223 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
The alternate forms: Valenca (9,771) are calculated separately.
Valença Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Valença Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Valença occurs more in Brazil more than any other country or territory. It may appear as a variant: Valenca. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Valença? popularity and diffusion
Valença is the 234,022nd most frequently held family name on earth, held by around 1 in 4,232,024 people. This surname is primarily found in The Americas, where 50 percent of Valença are found; 46 percent are found in South America and 45 percent are found in Luso-South America.
This surname is most commonly held in Brazil, where it is borne by 774 people, or 1 in 276,582. In Brazil Valença is primarily concentrated in: Pernambuco, where 28 percent are found, São Paulo, where 24 percent are found and Rio de Janeiro, where 18 percent are found. Not including Brazil Valença occurs in 44 countries. It also occurs in Portugal, where 32 percent are found and Saudi Arabia, where 9 percent are found.
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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 Valença
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