El Ghaffar Surname
Approximately 1,060 people bear this surname
El Ghaffar Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Syria | 669 | 1:28,851 | 1,895 |
| Yemen | 174 | 1:151,870 | 7,522 |
| United Arab Emirates | 75 | 1:122,164 | 10,258 |
| Jordan | 40 | 1:221,061 | 9,827 |
| Kuwait | 39 | 1:97,454 | 10,676 |
| Iraq | 37 | 1:946,531 | 12,381 |
| Lebanon | 10 | 1:563,708 | 13,499 |
| Tunisia | 9 | 1:67,847 | 8,246 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
El Ghaffar Demographics
El Ghaffar Religious Adherence
in Lebanon
Religious Adherence
in Lebanon
El Ghaffar Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name El Ghaffar Come From? nationality or country of origin
El Ghaffar is more frequently found in Syria than any other country/territory. It can also be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name El Ghaffar? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 345,372nd most frequent last name internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 6,875,043 people. The last name El Ghaffar is primarily found in Asia, where 98 percent of El Ghaffar reside; 98 percent reside in West Asia and 71 percent reside in Levant.
This surname is most frequent in Syria, where it is carried by 669 people, or 1 in 28,851. In Syria it is mostly concentrated in: Daraa Governorate, where 50 percent reside, Aleppo Governorate, where 44 percent reside and Homs Governorate, where 5 percent reside. Aside from Syria this last name exists in 10 countries. It is also found in Yemen, where 16 percent reside and The United Arab Emirates, where 7 percent reside.
El Ghaffar Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the El Ghaffar surname is primarily Shiite (71%) 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
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