El Malek Surname

424,982nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 814 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Egypt
Highest density in:
Mauritania

El Malek Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

El Malek Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Egypt3661:251,19117,305
Morocco3411:101,10317,469
Mauritania801:51,1863,739
France181:3,690,151224,666
Brazil41:53,518,583632,670
Algeria11:38,631,551130,422
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
United Arab Emirates11:9,162,273135,437
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

El Malek Last Name Facts

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

El Malek is found most frequently in Egypt. It may occur as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.

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

This surname is the 424,982nd most common surname globally It is held by around 1 in 8,952,759 people. The surname El Malek is mostly found in Africa, where 97 percent of El Malek are found; 87 percent are found in North Africa and 45 percent are found in Arabic North Africa.

The last name is most commonly held in Egypt, where it is borne by 366 people, or 1 in 251,191. Besides Egypt this last name exists in 9 countries. It is also common in Morocco, where 42 percent live and Mauritania, where 10 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
El Maleck94277/
El Malik88342/
El-Malek88157/
El Malick82122/
El Malike825/
El-Maleck821/
El Melik75374/
El-Malik759/
El Melick713/
El Mouslik67204/
El-Malique671/
El Melig631/

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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 Malek
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