El Helw Surname

253,048th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,563 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Egypt
Highest density in:
Egypt

El Helw Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

El Helw Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Egypt1,5251:60,2865,690
Kuwait291:131,05814,967
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
Italy11:61,156,688199,583
Morocco11:34,476,099111,471
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Saudi Arabia11:30,855,81763,028
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297

El Helw Last Name Facts

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

The last name El Helw occurs more in Egypt more than any other country/territory. It can occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

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

El Helw is the 253,048th most numerous family name throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 4,662,537 people. The last name El Helw is primarily found in Africa, where 98 percent of El Helw live; 98 percent live in North Africa and 98 percent live in Arabic North Africa.

This last name is most frequent in Egypt, where it is borne by 1,525 people, or 1 in 60,286. Beside Egypt it occurs in 9 countries. It also occurs in Kuwait, where 2 percent live and The United States, where 0 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
El Helwe9312/
El Helwh931/
El Hellw931/
El-Helw861,002/
El Helf8611/
El Halw861/
El-Helwe809/
El Khelf801/
El Alw774/
El Hilf7132/
El-Helf711/
El-Hilw711/
El Khilf679/

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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 Helw
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