El Najar Surname

749,861st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 383 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Egypt
Highest density in:
Egypt

El Najar Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

El Najar Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Egypt3661:251,19117,305
Qatar61:393,00055,922
Norway31:1,714,09579,528
United Arab Emirates21:4,581,13693,443
Chile11:17,616,47493,597
Denmark11:5,644,71593,155
Kuwait11:3,800,69427,187
Saudi Arabia11:30,855,81763,028
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
Venezuela11:30,204,07785,459

El Najar Last Name Facts

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

El Najar is held by more people in Egypt than any other country or territory. It may also be found as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.

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

El Najar is the 749,861st most frequent last name at a global level. It is borne by around 1 in 19,027,535 people. The last name El Najar occurs mostly in Africa, where 96 percent of El Najar live; 96 percent live in North Africa and 96 percent live in Arabic North Africa.

This surname is most numerous in Egypt, where it is carried by 366 people, or 1 in 251,191. Not including Egypt it exists in 9 countries. It also occurs in Qatar, where 2 percent are found and Norway, where 1 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
El Najjar94744/
El Nadjar945/
El Najr93122/
El Nazar886/
El-Najar884/
El Nayar884/
El Nejar881/
El-Najjar82867/
El Nachar8241/
El-Nadjar821/
El Nakhar821/
El Nair802/
El Nayer755/
El-Nachar7110/
El Nour6713,720/
El Nakhour6799/
El-Nadzhar671/
El Nouer634/
El-Nachchar631/
El-Nayer631/
El Nosour5940/
El-Nagier594/
El-Nour53342/

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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 Najar
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