Maracajá Surname

3,185,033rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 38 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Brazil
Highest density in:
Brazil

Maracajá Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Maracajá Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Brazil341:6,296,304151,940
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
Portugal11:10,418,24125,048

The alternate forms: Maracaja (369) are calculated separately.

Maracajá Last Name Facts

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

The surname Maracajá is held by more people in Brazil than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms: Maracaja. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Maracajá? popularity and diffusion

It is the 3,185,033rd most widely held family name globally, held by approximately 1 in 191,777,524 people. The surname occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 97 percent of Maracajá reside; 89 percent reside in South America and 89 percent reside in Luso-South America.

Maracajá is most prevalent in Brazil, where it is carried by 34 people, or 1 in 6,296,304. In Brazil Maracajá is primarily concentrated in: Paraíba, where 41 percent reside, São Paulo, where 21 percent reside and Pernambuco, where 12 percent reside. Excluding Brazil this last name exists in 2 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 8 percent reside and Portugal, where 3 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
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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 Maracajá
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