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The PORTUGAL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,767 15269 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 8 92624 0 0
Change since 1880 +1759 +77355 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 7 117953 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PORTUGAL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 580 5404 0.002 17
Texas 182 10554 0.001 9
Florida 146 13419 0.001 9
New York 144 14564 0.001 8
Arizona 94 6808 0.002 18
Top States for PORTUGAL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arizona 94 6808 0.002 18
California 580 5404 0.002 17
Colorado 68 8838 0.002 16
Nevada 19 13215 0.001 10
Florida 146 13419 0.001 9

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called PORTUGAL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PORTUGAL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PORTUGAL in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PORTUGAL by picking someone at random in Arizona than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PORTUGAL

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the PORTUGAL surname.

Ethnic distribution of PORTUGAL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 460 26.03
Asian/Pacific 173 9.79
Mixed Race 35 1.98
White (Hispanic) 1,092 61.8
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the PORTUGAL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

PORTUGAL is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of PORTUGAL in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of PORTUGAL.

Similar names to PORTUGAL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PORTUGAL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PORTUGAL

The following words are slight variants of PORTUGAL that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.