El Kareb Surname

675,256th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 442 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United Arab Emirates
Highest density in:
United Arab Emirates

El Kareb Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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El Kareb 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
United Arab Emirates4361:21,0142,434
Yemen41:6,606,32425,896
Mauritania11:4,094,86338,869
Sudan11:37,510,19514,259

El Kareb Last Name Facts

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

El Kareb (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﻜﺎﺭﺏ) is found in The United Arab Emirates more than any other country/territory. It can also occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.

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

The surname El Kareb is the 675,256th most frequently used last name on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 16,487,660 people. El Kareb is predominantly found in Asia, where 100 percent of El Kareb reside; 100 percent reside in West Asia and 100 percent reside in Arabian Peninsula.

The last name is most common in The United Arab Emirates, where it is carried by 436 people, or 1 in 21,014. In The United Arab Emirates it is most frequent in: Ras al-Khaimah, where 31 percent live and Dubai, where 1 percent live. Besides The United Arab Emirates El Kareb exists in 3 countries. It is also common in Yemen, where 1 percent live and Mauritania, where 0 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 Kareeb9464/
El Karib8844/
El Kareef8221/
El Katrib823/
El Kharrab784/
El Qarib75408/
El-Karib7516/
El Kerab751/
El Kharif711,028/
El Kherhab671/
El Corab6346/
El-Qareef591/
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El Kareb Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
El Kareb in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺍﻟﻜﺎﺭﺏalkarb-

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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 Kareb
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