El Hor Surname

89,653rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 5,351 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Mauritania
Highest density in:
Mauritania

El Hor Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

El Hor 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
Mauritania2,9861:1,371174
Morocco2,2491:15,3302,288
Spain541:865,77834,484
France401:1,660,568152,033
Belgium31:3,832,215117,288
Algeria31:12,877,18484,902
Israel21:4,278,817136,311
Norway21:2,571,14395,402
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Italy11:61,156,688199,583
Ivory Coast11:23,071,23276,679
Lebanon11:5,637,08332,436
Egypt11:91,935,754132,737
Mexico11:124,126,205103,776
Monaco11:37,0664,748
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Saudi Arabia11:30,855,81763,028
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
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El Hor (309) may also be a first name.

El Hor Last Name Facts

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

El Hor (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﺤﺮ) is found most in Mauritania. It may be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of El Hor click here.

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

It is the 89,653rd most frequently occurring family name at a global level, borne by around 1 in 1,361,904 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of El Hor live; 56 percent live in West Africa and 56 percent live in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 500,178th most frequent first name world-wide, held by 309 people.

The surname El Hor is most widely held in Mauritania, where it is borne by 2,986 people, or 1 in 1,371. In Mauritania El Hor is mostly concentrated in: Assaba Region, where 17 percent live, Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 13 percent live and Gorgol Region, where 13 percent live. Apart from Mauritania it occurs in 19 countries. It also occurs in Morocco, where 42 percent live and Spain, where 1 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 Hour922,076/
El Horr92289/
El Hore92142/
El Khor924/
El Or915/
El Horre86549/
El Houre86181/
El Hourr862/
El Hourd861/
El Khour861/
El Khoir861/
El Har83235/
El Hur83153/
El-Hor8328/
El Orr832/
El Our832/
El Hourre809/
El Khoure805/
El Gour77923/
El Juhr77763/
El Hare77493/
El Jahr77489/
El Harz77254/
El Hard77242/
El Harh77183/
El Hart77136/
El-Horr7716/
El-Hour775/
El Jorr775/
El Harr774/
El Gohr774/
El Hurh774/
El Oird772/
El Jour771/
El Athr771/
El Char771/
El-Hore771/
El Khar771/
El Hurr771/
El Ar7318/
El-Or7310/
El Juhrh71153/
El Chaar71136/
El Khaïr7114/
El Chgar719/
El Harre712/
El Kheur711/
El Asr672,624/
El Jar6732/
El-Jor6712/
El Usr674/
El Urz674/
El Urd674/
El Atr674/
El Ard674/
El Aur671/
El Gar671/
El Arr671/
El-Orr671/
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El Hor Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
El Hor in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺍﻟﺤﺮalhr99.77
ﺍﻟﺤﻮﺭalhwr0.12
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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 Hor
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