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 found most frequently in Syria. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name El Ghaffar? popularity and diffusion
It is the 345,372nd most frequently held surname at a global level. It is borne by approximately 1 in 6,875,043 people. This surname is mostly found in Asia, where 98 percent of El Ghaffar live; 98 percent live in West Asia and 71 percent live in Levant.
It is most frequently held in Syria, where it is held by 669 people, or 1 in 28,851. In Syria El Ghaffar is mostly found in: Daraa Governorate, where 50 percent live, Aleppo Governorate, where 44 percent live and Homs Governorate, where 5 percent live. Not including Syria it occurs in 10 countries. It is also found in Yemen, where 16 percent live and The United Arab Emirates, where 7 percent live.
El Ghaffar Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the surname is chiefly 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to El Ghaffar
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