Abu Salah Surname

58,239th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 8,688 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Egypt
Highest density in:
Palestine

Abu Salah Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Abu Salah Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Egypt4,0881:22,4892,586
Palestine2,0961:2,170435
Bangladesh1,6221:98,2474,266
Israel8661:9,8821,507
Norway61:857,04855,549
Brazil31:71,358,111770,017
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Pakistan11:178,643,885213,220
Qatar11:2,357,99976,403
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
United Arab Emirates11:9,162,273135,437

Abu Salah (3,494) may also be a first name.

Abu Salah Last Name Facts

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

The surname Abu Salah is found most frequently in Egypt. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Abu Salah? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 58,239th most widely held last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 838,806 people. The last name is primarily found in Asia, where 53 percent of Abu Salah are found; 47 percent are found in North Africa and 47 percent are found in Arabic North Africa. It is also the 120,138th most prevalent forename in the world. It is borne by 3,494 people.

It is most numerous in Egypt, where it is carried by 4,088 people, or 1 in 22,489. Without taking into account Egypt this surname occurs in 12 countries. It is also found in Palestine, where 24 percent reside and Bangladesh, where 19 percent reside.

Abu Salah Last Name Statistics demography

Abu Salah earn significantly less than the average income. In Norway they earn 29.65% less than the national average, earning 243,464 kr per year.

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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 Abu Salah
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