El Mouktar Surname

3,730,171st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 28 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Mauritania
Highest density in:
Mauritania

El Mouktar Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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El Mouktar 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
Mauritania261:157,4958,595
Cameroon11:20,769,068227,406
Niger11:19,192,017110,060

El Mouktar (13) may also be a first name.

El Mouktar Last Name Facts

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

The surname El Mouktar (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﻤﺨﺘﺎﺭ) is carried by more people in Mauritania than any other country or territory. It can also be found as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.

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

The last name is the 3,730,171st most numerous surname on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 260,269,497 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of El Mouktar reside; 100 percent reside in West Africa and 96 percent reside in Senegambia Africa. El Mouktar is also the 3,159,357th most commonly held forename worldwide It is held by 13 people.

El Mouktar is most frequently occurring in Mauritania, where it is held by 26 people, or 1 in 157,495. In Mauritania it is primarily found in: Assaba Region, where 31 percent reside, Hodh Chargui Region, where 23 percent reside and Nouakchott-Ouest Region, where 23 percent reside. Excluding Mauritania it occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 4 percent reside and Niger, where 4 percent reside.

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 Moktar951,629/
El Moukhtar951,458/
El Moucktar957/
El Muktar951/
El Moukhtair913/
El Moukhtare911/
El Mokhtar9020,298/
El Mouctar90254/
El Mukhtar90123/
El Mocktar9023/
El Moktare907/
El Mohktar904/
El Mokthar902/
El-Mouktar901/
El Moukhtaire871/
El Mokhtare8620/
El Mockhtar864/
El Moukteir863/
El Mookhtar862/
El-Moukhtar862/
El Mouctair861/
El Mokhtair861/
El Moucthar861/
El Mochktar861/
El Mokhtaïr861/
El Moctar8418,197/
El-Moktar847/
El Moukhteur8211/
El Moukhteir824/
El-Mokhtar80223/
El Makhtar8017/
El-Mukhtar803/
El Moctare803/
El Moctair801/
El Mokhteir763/
El-Moctar7469/
El Mactar742/
El Mokhteur671/
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El Mouktar Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
El Mouktar in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺍﻟﻤﺨﺘﺎﺭalmkhtar95.65
ﺍﻟﻤﺨﻄﺎﺭalmkhtar4.35

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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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  • 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 Mouktar
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