El-Fares Surname

4,427,875th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 20 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Egypt
Highest density in:
Qatar

El-Fares Surname

For the meaning of this name, see: El & Fares.

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

El-Fares Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Egypt91:10,215,08448,153
England41:13,929,515290,718
Algeria11:38,631,551130,422
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Denmark11:5,644,71593,155
Qatar11:2,357,99976,403
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
Venezuela11:30,204,07785,459

The alternate forms: El-Farès (1) are calculated separately.

El-Fares Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name El-Fares Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname El-Fares is more frequently found in Egypt than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms: El-Farès. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name El-Fares? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 4,427,875th most frequently occurring surname globally, held by around 1 in 364,377,296 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 50 percent of El-Fares are found; 50 percent are found in North Africa and 45 percent are found in Arabic North Africa.

El-Fares is most frequently occurring in Egypt, where it is held by 9 people, or 1 in 10,215,084. Apart from Egypt this last name exists in 8 countries. It is also found in England, where 20 percent are found and Algeria, where 5 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
El-Farès961/
El Fares8812,627/
El-Fareh881/
El Faress821/
El Farees821/
El-Fara803/
El Fare801/
El Faresse781/
El Faris75328/
El-Farra7587/
El Fareh758/
El-Faraj753/
El Farre751/
El-Farhi751/
El-Fahri751/
El Fared751/
El Fareej712,111/
El Fariss71206/
El Fareer7116/
El Fareed712/
El-Faraid711/
El Fari67395/
El Fary6712/
El Farj6711/
El Fara679/
El Vare678/
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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
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • 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 El-Fares
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