Al Shamat Surname

504,985th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 650 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Syria
Highest density in:
Syria

Al Shamat Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Al Shamat Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Syria5481:35,2212,173
Lebanon541:104,3906,105
Jordan431:205,6389,548
Yemen41:6,606,32425,896
Saudi Arabia11:30,855,81763,028

Al Shamat Last Name Facts

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

The surname Al Shamat is held by more people in Syria than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Al Shamat? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 504,985th most widespread surname in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 11,211,609 people. This last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Al Shamat live; 100 percent live in West Asia and 99 percent live in Levant.

The last name Al Shamat is most common in Syria, where it is carried by 548 people, or 1 in 35,221. In Syria it is most frequent in: Aleppo Governorate, where 94 percent live, Homs Governorate, where 4 percent live and Damascus Governorate, where 0 percent live. Not including Syria it occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Lebanon, where 8 percent live and Jordan, where 7 percent live.

Al Shamat Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those holding the Al Shamat last name is primarily Sunni (88%) in Lebanon.

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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 Al Shamat
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