El Azhar Surname

105,980th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 4,415 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Morocco
Highest density in:
Morocco

El Azhar Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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El Azhar 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
Morocco2,6581:12,9711,886
Egypt1,6471:55,8205,345
France761:873,983102,402
Spain121:3,896,00372,236
Netherlands71:2,412,45494,797
Thailand41:17,659,586685,799
Belgium31:3,832,215117,288
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
Switzerland21:4,106,458122,336
Mauritania11:4,094,86338,869
New Caledonia11:276,22310,363
Puerto Rico11:3,550,1399,109
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El Azhar (14) may also be a first name.

El Azhar Last Name Facts

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

The surname El Azhar (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻷﺯﻫﺮ) occurs in Morocco more than any other country/territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

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

This surname is the 105,980th most numerous surname on earth, held by approximately 1 in 1,650,633 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of El Azhar are found; 98 percent are found in North Africa and 60 percent are found in Mahgreb. El Azhar is also the 3,024,661st most widely held first name internationally, borne by 14 people.

The surname is most numerous in Morocco, where it is carried by 2,658 people, or 1 in 12,971. Other than Morocco this surname is found in 11 countries. It also occurs in Egypt, where 37 percent live and France, where 2 percent live.

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 Azar93294/
El Gazar882,395/
El Azaar88626/
El Hazar88122/
El-Azhar8815/
El Achar8814/
El Ajzar884/
El Ahjar884/
El Azear881/
El Azzar881/
El Gazzar824,975/
El Achgar82205/
El Ashjar824/
El Gazaar821/
El Aichar821/
El Hazgar821/
El Hazzar821/
El-Azar8023/
El Asar8011/
El Acar801/
El Haichar7867/
El Aasar751,000/
El-Gazar75980/
El Hajar75774/
El Ezaar75108/
El Azour753/
El-Azaar751/
El Hasar751/
El Ezzar751/
El-Gazzar712,480/
El Hajjar71948/
El Achour719/
El Hazour714/
El Hadjar711/
El-Haichar671/
El-Asar671/
El-Aasar63191/
El Ozeir632/
El Ajeir631/
El-Hajjar5963/
El Adjour591/
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El Azhar Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
El Azhar in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺍﻷﺯﻫﺮalazhr-

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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 Azhar
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