El Mouctar Surname

1,003,904th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 254 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Mauritania
Highest density in:
Mauritania

El Mouctar Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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El Mouctar 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
Mauritania2521:16,2491,520
Niger21:9,596,00886,358

El Mouctar (39) may also be a first name.

El Mouctar Last Name Facts

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

The surname El Mouctar (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﻤﺨﺘﺎﺭ) is more commonly found in Mauritania than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of El Mouctar click here.

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

This surname is the 1,003,904th most frequent last name internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 28,691,126 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of El Mouctar are found; 100 percent are found in West Africa and 99 percent are found in Senegambia Africa. El Mouctar is also the 1,637,361st most commonly held given name in the world. It is borne by 39 people.

The last name is most frequently used in Mauritania, where it is held by 252 people, or 1 in 16,249. In Mauritania it is mostly concentrated in: Hodh Chargui Region, where 65 percent live, Hodh El Gharbi Region, where 11 percent live and Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 6 percent live. Besides Mauritania this last name occurs in one country. It also occurs in Niger, where 1 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 Moucktar957/
El Moucthar951/
El Mouctair951/
El Mouktar9028/
El Mocktar9023/
El Mochtar909/
El Moctare903/
El Moctair901/
El Moukhtar861,458/
El Mockhtar864/
El Mochktar861/
El Moktar841,629/
El-Moctar8469/
El Mactar842/
El Muktar841/
El Moukhtair823/
El Moukhtare821/
El Mokhtar8020,298/
El Mukhtar80123/
El Moktare807/
El Mohktar804/
El Mokthar802/
El-Mouktar801/
El Moukhtaire781/
El Mokhtare7620/
El Moukteir763/
El-Moukhtar762/
El Mookhtar762/
El Mokhtair761/
El Mokhtaïr761/
El-Moktar747/
El Moukhteur7311/
El Moukhteir734/
El-Mokhtar70223/
El Makhtar7017/
El-Mukhtar703/
El Mokhteir673/
El Mokhteur671/
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El Mouctar Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
El Mouctar in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺍﻟﻤﺨﺘﺎﺭalmkhtar97.94
ﺍﻟﻤﺨﻄﺎﺭalmkhtar2.06

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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
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  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to El Mouctar
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