El Rifai Surname

340,053rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,081 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Egypt
Highest density in:
Saudi Arabia

El Rifai Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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El Rifai 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
Egypt6711:137,01310,788
Saudi Arabia2781:110,99214,774
France181:3,690,151224,666
Lebanon151:375,80611,209
United Arab Emirates121:763,52325,625
Venezuela111:2,745,82529,869
Thailand111:6,421,668407,040
Sweden91:1,094,08481,336
Australia71:3,856,529135,538
Brazil71:30,582,047441,004
Spain61:7,792,006100,283
Qatar61:393,00055,922
Canada51:7,369,118289,406
Israel51:1,711,52784,568
Belgium31:3,832,215117,288
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
Malaysia31:9,831,408269,765
Paraguay21:3,618,37313,977
Denmark21:2,822,35876,882
Croatia21:2,114,30285,143
Romania11:20,077,87089,414
Italy11:61,156,688199,583
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Gabon11:1,889,1946,814
Congo11:4,989,09634,171
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The alternate forms: El Rifaï (1) are calculated separately.

El Rifai (109) may also be a first name.

El Rifai Last Name Facts

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

The surname El Rifai occurs most in Egypt. It may also be rendered as a variant: El Rifaï. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

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

El Rifai is the 340,053rd most common family name on a global scale, held by around 1 in 6,741,486 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 62 percent of El Rifai live; 62 percent live in North Africa and 62 percent live in Arabic North Africa. El Rifai is also the 900,062nd most commonly occurring first name world-wide. It is borne by 109 people.

The surname is most widely held in Egypt, where it is carried by 671 people, or 1 in 137,013. Apart from Egypt this surname occurs in 24 countries. It is also common in Saudi Arabia, where 26 percent reside and France, where 2 percent reside.

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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
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • 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 Rifai
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