El Hachemi Surname

109,093rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 4,267 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Morocco
Highest density in:
Morocco

El Hachemi Surname User-submission:

This name is derived from hacham, which means to break something into small pieces. It's comes from an ancient ancestor that was named by its derivative 'el hachemi', which means 'the man that breaks bread' - for his tribe to eat in a period of hunger.

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El Hachemi 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
Morocco2,5561:13,4881,986
Algeria1,5641:24,7004,486
Mauritania841:48,7483,603
France491:1,355,566135,191
Tunisia41:152,65617,743
Belgium31:3,832,215117,288
Luxembourg21:290,2718,611
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Qatar11:2,357,99976,403
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Wales11:3,094,53244,023
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El Hachemi (8,948) may also be a first name.

El Hachemi Surname Meaning

User-submitted Reference

This name is derived from hacham, which means to break something into small pieces. It's comes from an ancient ancestor that was named by its derivative 'el hachemi', which means 'the man that breaks bread' - for his tribe to eat in a period of hunger.

- elhachemi1980
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El Hachemi Last Name Facts

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

El Hachemi (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﻬﺎﺷﻤﻲ) occurs more in Morocco more than any other country/territory. It may occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

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

The surname El Hachemi is the 109,093rd most commonly used surname world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 1,707,885 people. The last name El Hachemi occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of El Hachemi are found; 97 percent are found in North Africa and 97 percent are found in Mahgreb. It is also the 65,966th most common first name globally It is held by 8,948 people.

El Hachemi is most frequent in Morocco, where it is carried by 2,556 people, or 1 in 13,488. Apart from Morocco this surname occurs in 11 countries. It is also found in Algeria, where 37 percent live and Mauritania, where 2 percent live.

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SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
El Haachemi951/
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El-Hachemi909/
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El Hachimy80510/
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El Hashemy80185/
El-Hachimi80173/
El-Hachemy801/
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El Hachemi Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
El Hachemi in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺍﻟﻬﺎﺷﻤﻲalhashmy93.75
ﺍﻟﻬﺎﺷﻤﻰalhashmy6.25

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  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to El Hachemi
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