El Bassam Surname

264,221st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,482 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Kuwait
Highest density in:
Kuwait

El Bassam Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

El Bassam Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Kuwait1,3791:2,756346
United Arab Emirates641:143,16111,536
Jordan131:680,18714,528
Morocco91:3,830,67854,497
Yemen61:4,404,21618,907
Iraq41:8,755,41423,373
Lebanon41:1,409,27119,641
Canada31:12,281,864364,614

El Bassam (40) may also be a first name.

El Bassam Last Name Facts

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

El Bassam is borne by more people in Kuwait than any other country/territory. It can also be found as:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.

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

El Bassam is the 264,221st most numerous last name internationally, borne by around 1 in 4,917,372 people. The last name El Bassam is primarily found in Asia, where 99 percent of El Bassam live; 99 percent live in West Asia and 98 percent live in Arabian Peninsula. El Bassam is also the 1,614,485th most widely held first name worldwide. It is borne by 40 people.

The surname El Bassam is most prevalent in Kuwait, where it is borne by 1,379 people, or 1 in 2,756. Other than Kuwait El Bassam occurs in 7 countries. It is also common in The United Arab Emirates, where 4 percent are found and Jordan, where 1 percent are found.

El Bassam Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those bearing the El Bassam last name is principally Sunni (100%) in Lebanon.

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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 Bassam
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