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 surname El Dahab occurs more in Egypt more than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.

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

This last name is the 893,754th most commonly occurring last name on earth It is held by around 1 in 24,291,820 people. The last name is primarily found in Africa, where 72 percent of El Dahab live; 72 percent live in North Africa and 72 percent live in Arabic North Africa.

This surname is most frequently occurring in Egypt, where it is borne by 214 people, or 1 in 429,606. Other than Egypt it occurs in 7 countries. It also occurs in Yemen, where 21 percent are found and The United Arab Emirates, where 4 percent are found.

El Dahab Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those holding 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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