El Ghalib Surname
Approximately 394 people bear this surname
El Ghalib Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yemen | 163 | 1:162,118 | 7,792 |
| Jordan | 161 | 1:54,922 | 5,275 |
| Palestine | 64 | 1:71,076 | 6,019 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
El Ghalib Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name El Ghalib Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name El Ghalib is borne by more people in Yemen than any other country or territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name El Ghalib? popularity and diffusion
It is the 734,496th most widespread last name throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 18,496,309 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Asia, where 98 percent of El Ghalib live; 98 percent live in West Asia and 57 percent live in Levant.
The surname is most widely held in Yemen, where it is carried by 163 people, or 1 in 162,118. In Yemen it is mostly found in: Shabwah Governorate, where 97 percent reside, Sana'a Governorate, where 2 percent reside and Dhamar Governorate, where 1 percent reside. Other than Yemen this last name is found in 5 countries. It is also common in Jordan, where 41 percent reside and Palestine, where 16 percent reside.
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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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