El Mocktar Surname

4,116,508th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 23 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Mauritania
Highest density in:
Mauritania

El Mocktar Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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El Mocktar 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
Mauritania221:186,1309,575
Niger11:19,192,017110,060

El Mocktar (28) may also be a first name.

El Mocktar Last Name Facts

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

The surname El Mocktar (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﻤﺨﺘﺎﺭ) occurs in Mauritania more than any other country/territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.

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

This surname is the 4,116,508th most commonly occurring last name at a global level. It is borne by around 1 in 316,849,822 people. The surname El Mocktar is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of El Mocktar reside; 100 percent reside in West Africa and 96 percent reside in Senegambia Africa. El Mocktar is also the 1,994,417th most frequently used forename at a global level, borne by 28 people.

The surname is most widely held in Mauritania, where it is carried by 22 people, or 1 in 186,130. In Mauritania El Mocktar is most frequent in: Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 50 percent live, Trarza Region, where 14 percent live and Brakna Region, where 9 percent live. Excluding Mauritania El Mocktar is found in one country. It is also found in Niger, where 4 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 Moctar9518,197/
El Moktar951,629/
El Moucktar957/
El Mockhtar954/
El Mochktar951/
El Mokhtar9020,298/
El Mouctar90254/
El Mouktar9028/
El Moktare907/
El Mohktar904/
El Moctare903/
El Mokthar902/
El Moctair901/
El Moukhtar861,458/
El Mokhtare8620/
El Mookhtar862/
El Mokhtaïr861/
El Mouctair861/
El Moucthar861/
El Mokhtair861/
El-Moctar8469/
El-Moktar847/
El Mactar842/
El Muktar841/
El Mektar841/
El Moukhtair823/
El Moukhtare821/
El-Mokhtar80223/
El Mukhtar80123/
El Mekhtar8019/
El Makhtar8017/
El-Mouktar801/
El Moukhtaire781/
El Moukteir763/
El Mokhteir763/
El-Moukhtar762/
El Mokhteur761/
El Moukhteur7311/
El Moukhteir734/
El-Mukhtar703/
El Mekhteir678/
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El Mocktar Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
El Mocktar in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺍﻟﻤﺨﺘﺎﺭalmkhtar90.91
ﺍﻟﻤﺨﻄﺎﺭalmkhtar9.09

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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 Mocktar
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