El Abbass Surname

731,961st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 396 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Morocco
Highest density in:
Mauritania

El Abbass Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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El Abbass 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
Morocco3071:112,30019,480
Mauritania891:46,0103,425

El Abbass (48) may also be a first name.

El Abbass Last Name Facts

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

The surname El Abbass (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﻌﺒﺎﺱ) is more frequently found in Morocco than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.

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

The surname is the 731,961st most commonly used last name globally, borne by around 1 in 18,402,894 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of El Abbass reside; 78 percent reside in North Africa and 78 percent reside in Mahgreb. It is also the 1,448,253rd most frequent first name internationally It is held by 48 people.

It is most commonly held in Morocco, where it is held by 307 people, or 1 in 112,300. Besides Morocco it exists in one country. It also occurs in Mauritania, where 22 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 Abbasse955/
El Abbasss951/
El Abbas941,199/
El Gabbas891,414/
El Habbas89150/
El Abba88113/
El Habbash8419/
El Abbad8298/
El-Abbas8215/
El Habba823/
El Aabba821/
El Abbous78136/
El-Gabbas789/
El Habbaj784/
El Habbay782/
El-Habbas781/
El Habbaz781/
El Abbaid781/
El Abbo758/
El-Abba752/
El-Habbash7430/
El Habbach746/
El Hobba714/
El-Abbad712/
El Habbo711/
El Habbache70170/
El Abboud6798/
El Houbba675/
El Abbouz671/
El Habbou671/
El Abbouch63136/
El Habbouz631/
El Goubbaz631/
El Habbouch604/
El-Abboud568/
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El Abbass Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
El Abbass in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺍﻟﻌﺒﺎﺱalbas97.87
ﺍﻟﻌﺎﺑﺲalabs2.13

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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 Abbass
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