El Khateeb Surname

148,468th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 2,978 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Egypt
Highest density in:
Egypt

El Khateeb Surname User-submission:

The surname means 'the orator' in Arabic and it refers to the person who use to orate to the people in the mosques especially in the Friday's prayer. Holders of the surname may have an ancestor who was working in this profession.

El Khateeb 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
Egypt2,6541:34,6403,648
Saudi Arabia2781:110,99214,774
Kuwait291:131,05814,967
England31:18,572,686338,250
Sweden31:3,282,252190,759
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
Jordan21:4,421,21822,351
United Arab Emirates21:4,581,13693,443
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Lebanon11:5,637,08332,436
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
Sudan11:37,510,19514,259
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El Khateeb Surname Meaning

User-submitted Reference

The surname means 'the orator' in Arabic and it refers to the person who use to orate to the people in the mosques especially in the Friday's prayer. Holders of the surname may have an ancestor who was working in this profession.

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El Khateeb Last Name Facts

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

El Khateeb is found most frequently in Egypt. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.

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

It is the 148,468th most prevalent surname throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 2,447,128 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 89 percent of El Khateeb live; 89 percent live in North Africa and 89 percent live in Arabic North Africa.

This surname is most commonly occurring in Egypt, where it is held by 2,654 people, or 1 in 34,640. Aside from Egypt this last name is found in 11 countries. It is also common in Saudi Arabia, where 9 percent reside and Kuwait, where 1 percent reside.

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El Khateb95933/
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El Khattab801,611/
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El Khaitib805/
El-Khateib801/
El-Khateep801/
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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
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  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to El Khateeb
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