El Dahab Surname

893,754th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 300 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Egypt
Highest density in:
Yemen

El Dahab Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

El Dahab Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Egypt2141:429,60625,756
Yemen631:419,44910,534
United Arab Emirates121:763,52325,625
Lebanon41:1,409,27119,641
Syria41:4,825,25612,827
Jordan11:8,842,43726,010
Kuwait11:3,800,69427,187
Sudan11:37,510,19514,259

El Dahab Last Name Facts

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

The last name El Dahab is carried by more people in Egypt than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.

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

It is the 893,754th most commonly used family name worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 24,291,820 people. The surname El Dahab is mostly found in Africa, where 72 percent of El Dahab are found; 72 percent are found in North Africa and 72 percent are found in Arabic North Africa.

El Dahab is most frequently occurring in Egypt, where it is carried by 214 people, or 1 in 429,606. Excluding Egypt it is found in 7 countries. It also occurs in Yemen, where 21 percent reside and The United Arab Emirates, where 4 percent reside.

El Dahab Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those bearing the surname is chiefly Sunni (100%) in Lebanon.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
El Dhahab94397/
El Dhab939/
El-Dahab8811/
El Dhaab884/
El Dab865,587/
El Dabs801/
El Deib67312/
El-Dabh677/
El-Dabt674/
El-Deab674/
El Deap671/
El-Deib53383/

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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 Dahab
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