El Alem Surname

149,952nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 2,944 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Mauritania
Highest density in:
Mauritania

El Alem Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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El Alem 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
Mauritania2,2551:1,816233
Morocco5111:67,46811,380
Algeria1451:266,42427,662
France101:6,642,272293,169
Tunisia91:67,8478,246
Denmark31:1,881,57267,227
Norway21:2,571,14395,402
Australia11:26,995,701270,794
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Egypt11:91,935,754132,737
Israel11:8,557,634182,558
Libya11:6,243,9746,186
Saudi Arabia11:30,855,81763,028
Sudan11:37,510,19514,259
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
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El Alem (581) may also be a first name.

El Alem Last Name Facts

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

The surname El Alem (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﻌﺎﻟﻢ) is found most in Mauritania. It may also be found as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.

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

The last name El Alem is the 149,952nd most numerous surname on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 2,475,389 people. The last name El Alem is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of El Alem live; 77 percent live in West Africa and 77 percent live in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 347,331st most frequently occurring first name world-wide, borne by 581 people.

The last name El Alem is most common in Mauritania, where it is borne by 2,255 people, or 1 in 1,816. In Mauritania El Alem is mostly found in: Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 17 percent are found, Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 16 percent are found and Trarza Region, where 15 percent are found. Excluding Mauritania this surname occurs in 15 countries. It is also found in Morocco, where 17 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 Halem93214/
El Aleem93123/
El Aleme937/
El Allem936/
El Aalem935/
El Aleim935/
El Haleem881/
El-Alem86216/
El Alim8626/
El Elem866/
El Halim807,902/
El Aalim80206/
El Alime803/
El Alien802/
El Halym801/
El-Aleem801/
El-Haleem752/
El Goulem751/
El-Alim711/
El-Halim67249/
El Helim672/
El-Eliem671/
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El Alem Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
El Alem in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺍﻟﻌﺎﻟﻢalalm99.77

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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 Alem
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