El Medani Surname

2,203,767th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 74 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Mauritania
Highest density in:
Mauritania

El Medani Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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El Medani 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
Mauritania651:62,9984,372
Sudan91:4,167,7995,799

El Medani Last Name Facts

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

The surname El Medani (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﻤﺪﺍﻧﻲ) is found most frequently in Mauritania. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.

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

The last name is the 2,203,767th most widespread family name globally, held by approximately 1 in 98,480,350 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of El Medani live; 88 percent live in West Africa and 88 percent live in Senegambia Africa.

The surname is most commonly used in Mauritania, where it is borne by 65 people, or 1 in 62,998. In Mauritania El Medani is most common in: Hodh Chargui Region, where 60 percent live, Assaba Region, where 18 percent live and Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 17 percent live. Apart from Mauritania this surname exists in one country. It is also found in Sudan, where 12 percent live.

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 Mejdani95205/
El Mehdani952/
El Medany89708/
El-Medani89130/
El Midani893/
El Maydani84305/
El Meydane8412/
El Meddany844/
El Meidane842/
El Medouni841/
El-Medany78643/
El Midana78214/
El Midany789/
El Midane784/
El-Midani781/
El Medhoune701/
El-Midany67397/
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El Medani Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
El Medani in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺍﻟﻤﺪﺍﻧﻲalmdany92.59
ﺍﻟﻤﺪﺍﻧﻰalmdany7.41

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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 Medani
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