Veleño Surname
Approximately 152 people bear this surname
Veleño Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colombia | 123 | 1:388,407 | 6,334 |
| Venezuela | 20 | 1:1,510,204 | 20,059 |
| Spain | 8 | 1:5,844,004 | 86,878 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Veleno (115) are calculated separately.
Veleño Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Veleño Come From? nationality or country of origin
Veleño is carried by more people in Colombia than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms: Veleno. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Veleño? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,422,956th most widely held surname world-wide, borne by around 1 in 47,944,381 people. It is primarily found in The Americas, where 95 percent of Veleño reside; 94 percent reside in South America and 94 percent reside in Caribbean South America.
The last name Veleño is most common in Colombia, where it is carried by 123 people, or 1 in 388,407. In Colombia Veleño is primarily concentrated in: Capital District, where 53 percent live, Bolívar Department, where 13 percent live and Atlántico Department, where 12 percent live. Excluding Colombia this surname exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Venezuela, where 13 percent live and Spain, where 5 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Veleno | 94 | 115 | / |
| Vesleño | 92 | 16 | / |
| Veleños | 92 | 1 | / |
| Vesleñio | 86 | 1 | / |
| Veleña | 83 | 847 | / |
| Velaño | 83 | 39 | / |
| Feleño | 83 | 9 | / |
| Valeño | 83 | 4 | / |
| Visleño | 77 | 195 | / |
| Vesliño | 77 | 185 | / |
| Beleños | 77 | 39 | / |
| Vesleno | 77 | 16 | / |
| Feleños | 77 | 1 | / |
| Beleñoz | 77 | 1 | / |
| Vesliños | 71 | 129 | / |
| Veslenio | 71 | 21 | / |
| Valiño | 67 | 2,334 | / |
| Beleno | 67 | 1,541 | / |
| Velona | 67 | 455 | / |
| Velaña | 67 | 309 | / |
| Velino | 67 | 269 | / |
| Velena | 67 | 165 | / |
| Velono | 67 | 157 | / |
| Vileno | 67 | 126 | / |
| Voleno | 67 | 40 | / |
| Velonà | 67 | 20 | / |
| Volaño | 67 | 9 | / |
| Vilaño | 67 | 4 | / |
| Feliño | 67 | 3 | / |
| Beliño | 67 | 2 | / |
| Feleno | 67 | 1 | / |
| Beleñó | 67 | 1 | / |
| Beléño | 67 | 1 | / |
| Veloña | 67 | 1 | / |
| Weleno | 67 | 1 | / |
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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 Veleño
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