El Hanchy Surname

4,649,889th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 18 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Mauritania
Highest density in:
Mauritania

El Hanchy Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

El Hanchy 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
Mauritania141:292,49012,957
Morocco41:8,619,02573,251

El Hanchy Last Name Facts

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

El Hanchy (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﺤﻨﺸﻲ) occurs more in Mauritania more than any other country/territory. It may be found as:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.

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

El Hanchy is the 4,649,889th most frequent last name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 404,863,662 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of El Hanchy reside; 78 percent reside in West Africa and 78 percent reside in Senegambia Africa.

This surname is most frequently used in Mauritania, where it is carried by 14 people, or 1 in 292,490. In Mauritania it is primarily concentrated in: Adrar Region, where 64 percent live, Dakhlet Nouadhibou Region, where 7 percent live and Hodh El Gharbi Region, where 7 percent live. Excluding Mauritania this surname occurs in one country. It also occurs in Morocco, where 22 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 Hanchi89713/
El Hanche89136/
El Henchy891/
El Hamchy891/
El Khanchi844/
El Hanzy82604/
El Hansy822/
El Hamchi78136/
El Khanzy786/
El Ahnchi784/
El Aanchi781/
El Ansy7558,481/
El Hamzy7116,711/
El Gansy716/
El Anzhi711/
El Hanzi711/
El Amchi711/
El Khanzi6731/
El Khanji672/
El Hantsi672/
El Hanjis671/
El Angesh671/
El Hanssi671/
El Hanser671/
El Khangi671/
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El Hanchy Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
El Hanchy in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺍﻟﺤﻨﺸﻲalhnshy88.89
ﺍﻟﺤﻨﺸﻰalhnshy11.11

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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 Hanchy
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