El Ghoulam Surname

2,580,327th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 56 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Mauritania
Highest density in:
Mauritania

El Ghoulam Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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El Ghoulam 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
Mauritania501:81,8975,336
Morocco41:8,619,02573,251
Algeria11:38,631,551130,422
France11:66,422,722504,397

El Ghoulam Last Name Facts

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

El Ghoulam (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﻐﻼﻡ) occurs most in Mauritania. It may also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of El Ghoulam.

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

The surname El Ghoulam is the 2,580,327th most commonly used surname in the world It is held by around 1 in 130,134,748 people. This last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of El Ghoulam reside; 89 percent reside in West Africa and 89 percent reside in Senegambia Africa.

The surname is most numerous in Mauritania, where it is held by 50 people, or 1 in 81,897. In Mauritania it is primarily concentrated in: Trarza Region, where 32 percent live, Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 24 percent live and Adrar Region, where 22 percent live. Barring Mauritania it is found in 3 countries. It is also common in Morocco, where 7 percent live and Algeria, where 2 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 Gholam954/
El Ghulam954/
El Ghoulame951/
El Ghoullam951/
El Ghollam901/
El Ghalham80311/
El Ghaloum802/
El Ghalan744/
El Gahlan741/
El Ghallan701/
El Ghailane671/
El Gailain601/
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El Ghoulam Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
El Ghoulam in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺍﻟﻐﻼﻡalghlam-

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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 Ghoulam
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