El Hassoun Surname

89,453rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 5,364 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Syria
Highest density in:
Syria

El Hassoun Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

El Hassoun Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Syria4,4101:4,377502
Jordan4781:18,4992,824
Iraq1621:216,1834,877
Lebanon1491:37,8333,566
Kuwait1451:26,2123,463
Palestine161:284,30310,570
United Arab Emirates21:4,581,13693,443
Egypt11:91,935,754132,737
Yemen11:26,425,29455,147

El Hassoun Last Name Facts

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

The surname El Hassoun is borne by more people in Syria than any other country or territory. It can also appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of El Hassoun click here.

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

This surname is the 89,453rd most common family name in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 1,358,603 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Asia, where 100 percent of El Hassoun reside; 100 percent reside in West Asia and 97 percent reside in Levant.

El Hassoun is most frequent in Syria, where it is carried by 4,410 people, or 1 in 4,377. In Syria El Hassoun is most prevalent in: Aleppo Governorate, where 92 percent reside, Homs Governorate, where 8 percent reside and Damascus Governorate, where 0 percent reside. Other than Syria El Hassoun is found in 8 countries. It is also found in Jordan, where 9 percent reside and Iraq, where 3 percent reside.

El Hassoun Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those bearing the El Hassoun surname is principally Sunni (99%) 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 Hassoun
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