El Abbas Surname

313,426th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,199 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Morocco
Highest density in:
Morocco

El Abbas Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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El Abbas 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
Morocco6481:53,2048,802
Egypt3051:301,42919,796
Spain861:543,62826,445
Algeria671:576,59038,564
United Arab Emirates451:203,60614,059
Venezuela91:3,356,00933,931
Belgium71:1,642,37898,400
Mauritania61:682,47721,744
Australia51:5,399,140162,351
France41:16,605,680368,153
Sudan41:9,377,5498,207
Norway21:2,571,14395,402
Cameroon11:20,769,068227,406
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
Nigeria11:177,142,758748,972
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Denmark11:5,644,71593,155
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
Italy11:61,156,688199,583
Indonesia11:132,249,194811,426
England11:55,718,059489,080
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
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El Abbas (124) may also be a first name.

El Abbas Last Name Facts

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

The last name El Abbas (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﻌﺒﺎﺱ) occurs in Morocco more than any other country or territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name El Abbas? popularity and diffusion

El Abbas is the 313,426th most commonly occurring family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 6,078,020 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 88 percent of El Abbas reside; 87 percent reside in North Africa and 60 percent reside in Mahgreb. It is also the 836,439th most frequently occurring first name on earth It is held by 124 people.

This surname is most frequently held in Morocco, where it is held by 648 people, or 1 in 53,204. Other than Morocco it exists in 22 countries. It also occurs in Egypt, where 25 percent reside and Spain, where 7 percent reside.

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 Gabbas941,414/
El Abbass94396/
El Habbas94150/
El Abba93113/
El Habbash8919/
El Abbasse895/
El Abbasss891/
El Abbad8898/
El-Abbas8815/
El Habba883/
El Aabba881/
El Abbous82136/
El-Gabbas829/
El Habbaj824/
El Habbay822/
El-Habbas821/
El Habbaz821/
El Abbaid821/
El Abbo808/
El-Abba802/
El-Habbash7830/
El Habbach786/
El Hobba754/
El-Abbad752/
El Habbo751/
El Habbache74170/
El Abboud7198/
El Houbba715/
El Abbouz711/
El Habbou711/
El Abbouch67136/
El Habbouz671/
El Goubbaz671/
El Habbouch634/
El-Abboud598/
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El Abbas Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
El Abbas in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺍﻟﻌﺒﺎﺱalbas-

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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 El Abbas
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