Ait Cherif Surname
Approximately 497 people bear this surname
Ait Cherif Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 485 | 1:79,653 | 12,597 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
The alternate forms: Ait Chérif (1) are calculated separately.
Ait Cherif Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ait Cherif Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ait Cherif is more frequently found in Algeria than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as a variant: Ait Chérif. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Ait Cherif? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 618,896th most widespread last name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 14,663,070 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Ait Cherif live; 99 percent live in North Africa and 99 percent live in Mahgreb.
The surname is most commonly used in Algeria, where it is held by 485 people, or 1 in 79,653. In Algeria it is most frequent in: Sidi Bel Abbès Province, where 61 percent are found, Tizi Ouzou Province, where 38 percent are found and Boumerdès Province, where 1 percent are found. Without taking into account Algeria this surname occurs in 3 countries. It is also found in Morocco, where 2 percent are found and France, where 0 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ait Chérif | 97 | 1 | / |
| Ait Chrif | 95 | 209 | / |
| Ait Cherifi | 95 | 1 | / |
| Ait Cherifa | 95 | 1 | / |
| Ait Charif | 90 | 171 | / |
| Ait-Cherif | 90 | 5 | / |
| Ait Cheirf | 90 | 1 | / |
| Ait Chriyef | 86 | 4 | / |
| Ait Cherouf | 86 | 1 | / |
| Ait-Chrif | 84 | 1 | / |
| Ait-Oucherif | 82 | 1 | / |
| Idi Cherif | 80 | 6 | / |
| Ado Cherif | 80 | 1 | / |
| Ait-Chérif | 80 | 1 | / |
| Ait Oucherouf | 78 | 6 | / |
| Adda Cherif | 76 | 1 | / |
| Idcharif | 67 | 4 | / |
| Oticheruvu | 50 | 3 | / |
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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 Ait Cherif
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