El Kerim Surname

1,017,412th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 249 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Mauritania
Highest density in:
Mauritania

El Kerim Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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El Kerim 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
Mauritania2471:16,5781,546
Algeria11:38,631,551130,422
Egypt11:91,935,754132,737

El Kerim Last Name Facts

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

The surname El Kerim (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﻜﺮﻳﻢ) is found most in Mauritania. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.

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

The surname El Kerim is the 1,017,412th most widespread surname world-wide, held by around 1 in 29,267,253 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of El Kerim live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Senegambia Africa.

It is most commonly held in Mauritania, where it is borne by 247 people, or 1 in 16,578. In Mauritania El Kerim is most common in: Hodh Chargui Region, where 36 percent reside, Trarza Region, where 23 percent reside and Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 10 percent reside. Barring Mauritania this surname occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in Algeria, where 0 percent reside and Egypt, where 0 percent reside.

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 Kerime944/
El Kherim941/
El Kerrim941/
El Kereim941/
El Kherime899/
El Karim88800/
El Kerem8845/
El Kerym881/
El Kharim8213/
El Kariem821/
El Kharrim78404/
El Karem751,040/
El-Karim758/
El Kirem752/
El Carim751/
El Kareem71258/
El Cherem7139/
El Querem711/
El-Kariem711/
El-Kareim711/
El-Kareem599/
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El Kerim Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
El Kerim in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺍﻟﻜﺮﻳﻢalkrym98.77
ﺍﻟﺮﺣﻤﻦalrhmn1.23

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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 Kerim
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