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My first surname highest incidence is in Porto, Lisboa, Aveiro and Braga. Likely a surname with its origins in the north.



My second surname highest incidence is in Lisboa, Setúbal, Porto and Castelo Branco. I think it is a surname originally from Castelo Branco but Lisboa, Setúbal and Porto happen to have higher incidences because many families migrated from Castelo Branco to those cities in the 70's and 80's (my family included).


My third and last surname highest incidence is in Lisboa, followed by Castelo Branco and Santarém. This one I am pretty sure that is originally from Sertã and neighbouring regions because every stranger I have ever encountered during my life with this surname happened to have relatives from there.

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My lone Portuguese surname is common in Porto and Lisbon. 


It was ranked #4.

CKMordi wrote:

My lone Portuguese surname is common in Porto and Lisbon. 

It was ranked #4.

Must be pretty common then. Is it a surname that exists in Spain too?

Viriato wrote:

CKMordi wrote:

My lone Portuguese surname is common in Porto and Lisbon. 

It was ranked #4.

Must be pretty common then. Is it a surname that exists in Spain too?

It's only found in Galicia in significant numbers, according to the site, at 1,265.

It's ranked at #238 in Spain.

Compared to my father's surname, which is found all over Spain, most common in Andalucia at 20k, and ranked #2. lol

My two surnames, I guess they are pretty much "Pan Portuguese". It's normal for the frequency of any surname being higher in Lisbon and Porto, they don't calculate it per capita or per 1000 thousand inhabitants but by absolute numbers, it's natural that the two biggest urban areas will have the higher frequency of any typical and popular/common Portuguese surname.  

Two of my surnames seem to be rather uncommon apparently in comparsion with the others posted in here so far, with only 143 and 247 registrations on the website.

My first surname is common in coastal districts between Douro and Tagus rivers, its highest incidence by absolute values is in Lisbon, followed by Aveiro, but its frequency is a lot higher in Guarda.




My second and last surname highest incidence is in Lisbon, followed by Setúbal. Many relatives migrated from Alentejo (Beja) to those cities. However surname's frequency is higher in Castelo Branco.

Viriato wrote:

Two of my surnames seem to be rather uncommon apparently in comparsion with the others posted in here so far, with only 143 and 247 registrations on the website.

My first surname is so common, with over 2000 registrations.