El Kehel Surname

1,300,225th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 174 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Mauritania
Highest density in:
Mauritania

El Kehel Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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El Kehel 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
Mauritania1731:23,6702,068
Morocco11:34,476,099111,471

The alternate forms: El Kéhel (41) are calculated separately.

El Kehel Last Name Facts

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

The surname El Kehel (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﻜﻴﺤﻞ) is held by more people in Mauritania than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms: El Kéhel. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

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

It is the 1,300,225th most frequently used surname on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 41,882,448 people. This last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of El Kehel are found; 99 percent are found in West Africa and 99 percent are found in Senegambia Africa.

The last name is most widely held in Mauritania, where it is carried by 173 people, or 1 in 23,670. In Mauritania El Kehel is primarily found in: Brakna Region, where 46 percent are found, Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 20 percent are found and Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 10 percent are found. Barring Mauritania this last name is found in one country. It also occurs in Morocco, where 1 percent are found.

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 Kéhel9641/
El Kiehel944/
El Kaehel941/
El Keheil941/
El Keuhel941/
El Kihel882,315/
El Kehil8815/
El Kahel8813/
El Khiel8811/
El Khyel881/
El Khihel822/
El K'Hiel822/
El Khyhel821/
El Kahil753/
El Kihil751/
El-Khahil591/
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El Kehel Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
El Kehel in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺍﻟﻜﻴﺤﻞalkyhl92.31
ﺍﻟﻜﻬﻞalkhl2.56
ﺍﻟﻜﺤﻴﻞalkhyl2.56
ﺍﻟﻜﻴﺤﻴﻞalkyhyl1.28

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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
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • 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 Kehel
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