El Afifi Surname

379,617th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 940 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Egypt
Highest density in:
Egypt

El Afifi Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

El Afifi 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
Egypt7321:125,59510,096
Algeria1811:213,43424,784
France91:7,380,302306,885
Sweden61:1,641,126116,183
United States41:90,614,7331,198,479
United Arab Emirates21:4,581,13693,443
England11:55,718,059489,080
Kuwait11:3,800,69427,187
Morocco11:34,476,099111,471
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
Tunisia11:610,62630,336
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El Afifi (11) may also be a first name.

El Afifi Last Name Facts

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

The surname El Afifi occurs more in Egypt more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of El Afifi.

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

The last name is the 379,617th most widespread family name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 7,752,708 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 97 percent of El Afifi live; 97 percent live in North Africa and 78 percent live in Arabic North Africa. It is also the 3,487,849th most widely held first name at a global level, held by 11 people.

El Afifi is most frequently used in Egypt, where it is held by 732 people, or 1 in 125,595. Besides Egypt this surname exists in 11 countries. It also occurs in Algeria, where 19 percent are found and France, where 1 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 Aafifi94137/
El Affifi9494/
El Hafifi944/
El-Afifi88583/
El Afify88122/
El Afife885/
El Hefifi824/
El Affify821/
El-Afify754/
El-Afife751/

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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 Afifi
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