El Khalif Surname

5,391,485th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 13 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Mauritania
Highest density in:
Mauritania

El Khalif Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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El Khalif 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
Mauritania91:454,98517,374
Egypt41:22,983,93862,368

El Khalif Last Name Facts

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

El Khalif (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﺨﻠﻴﻔﻪ) is held by more people in Mauritania than any other country/territory. It may appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.

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

The surname is the 5,391,485th most widely held surname throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 560,580,455 people. The last name El Khalif occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of El Khalif live; 69 percent live in West Africa and 69 percent live in Senegambia Africa.

El Khalif is most widespread in Mauritania, where it is carried by 9 people, or 1 in 454,985. In Mauritania El Khalif is primarily found in: Nouakchott-Ouest Region, where 44 percent reside, Tagant Region, where 22 percent reside and Trarza Region, where 22 percent reside. Not including Mauritania this last name occurs in one country. It is also common in Egypt, where 31 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 Khalife9516/
El Khalef8993/
El Halife892/
El-Khalif891/
El Khalefe841/
El Halef8296/
El Halib824/
El Kalef821/
El Khalev7859/
El Khelef781/
El Qalib719/
El Haleb711/
El Kelef711/
El Kalev711/
El Halayfeh7027/
El Khouleva605/
El Qaleb591/
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El Khalif Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
El Khalif in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺍﻟﺨﻠﻴﻔﻪalkhlyfh36.36
ﺍﻟﺨﻠﻴﻒalkhlyf36.36
ﺍﻟﺨﺎﻟﻴﻒalkhalyf9.09
ﺍﺧﻠﻴﻒakhlyf9.09
ﺍﻟﺨﻠﻒalkhlf9.09

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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 Khalif
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