El Ghadhy Surname

684,148th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 434 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Mauritania
Highest density in:
Mauritania

El Ghadhy Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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El Ghadhy 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
Mauritania4331:9,457990
Yemen11:26,425,29455,147

El Ghadhy (48) may also be a first name.

El Ghadhy Last Name Facts

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

The surname El Ghadhy (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﻘﺎﻇﻲ) is found in Mauritania more than any other country/territory. It may also occur as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.

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

This last name is the 684,148th most prevalent last name on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 16,791,580 people. The last name El Ghadhy occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of El Ghadhy reside; 100 percent reside in West Africa and 100 percent reside in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 1,448,253rd most widespread first name world-wide It is held by 48 people.

The surname is most numerous in Mauritania, where it is borne by 433 people, or 1 in 9,457. In Mauritania it is most numerous in: Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 23 percent live, Brakna Region, where 21 percent live and Dakhlet Nouadhibou Region, where 13 percent live. Barring Mauritania this last name is found in one country. It also occurs in Yemen, where 0 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 Ghadahy951/
El Gadhy943,363/
El Ghady94221/
El Ghadhi891,317/
El Ghedhy891/
El Gady885/
El Gaddy82887/
El Ghadi82240/
El Gadhi8211/
El Gadeh821/
El Kgady821/
El-Ghady821/
El Ghader78688/
El-Ghadhi7815/
El Ghaida789/
El Ghedhi789/
El Ghaidi785/
El Ghoudy784/
El Ghadea781/
El Hgadhi781/
El Ghaddi781/
El Gedy752,283/
El Gadi751,650/
El Gada75175/
El Gody758/
El Ghadeer74760/
El Gaidi71689/
El Gahda71299/
El Goudy71173/
El Gaede7111/
El Gadda719/
El Gadji716/
El-Ghadi714/
El Gaadi714/
El Gader713/
El Gaddi712/
El Gadaa711/
El-Gaidy711/
El Geddy711/
El Gaïdi711/
El Gadje711/
El Gadid711/
El Ghoudi678/
El-Ghoudy671/
El Gaddje671/
El Gheddi671/
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El Ghadhy Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
El Ghadhy in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺍﻟﻘﺎﻇﻲalqazy69.77
ﺍﻟﻘﺎﻇﻰalqazy16.86
ﺍﻟﻐﺎﻇﻲalghazy5.81
ﺍﻟﻘﺎﺿﻲalqady4.65
ﺍﻟﻘﺎﺿﻰalqady1.74
ﺍﻟﻐﺎﻇﻰalghazy0.58
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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 Ghadhy
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