El Farouk Surname

378,680th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 943 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Morocco
Highest density in:
Morocco

El Farouk Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

El Farouk Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Morocco4771:72,27712,260
Egypt3971:231,57616,276
France461:1,443,972140,296
Spain141:3,339,43167,428
Cameroon21:10,384,534165,830
Algeria11:38,631,551130,422
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Ghana11:27,020,69223,742
Qatar11:2,357,99976,403
Saudi Arabia11:30,855,81763,028
United Arab Emirates11:9,162,273135,437
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

El Farouk (36) may also be a first name.

El Farouk Last Name Facts

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

The surname El Farouk is most common in Morocco. It can also be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of El Farouk click here.

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

El Farouk is the 378,680th most commonly occurring family name at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 7,728,044 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 96 percent of El Farouk live; 93 percent live in North Africa and 51 percent live in Mahgreb. It is also the 1,717,090th most prevalent first name world-wide It is held by 36 people.

El Farouk is most frequent in Morocco, where it is held by 477 people, or 1 in 72,277. Excluding Morocco this last name exists in 11 countries. It is also common in Egypt, where 42 percent reside and France, where 5 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
El-Farouk89371/
El Farouq89144/
El Fargoug849/
El Faruq822,631/
El-Faruk825/
El Farrak784/
El Varoug781/
El Farag711/
El Varogh671/
El Farraq671/
El Varoygh631/

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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 Farouk
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