El Samra Surname

230,851st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,752 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Lebanon
Highest density in:
Lebanon

El Samra Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

El Samra Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Lebanon1,0021:5,626978
Syria3671:52,5912,689
Egypt2441:376,78623,402
Kuwait961:39,5914,718
Palestine191:239,4139,903
Jordan151:589,49613,598
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Qatar11:2,357,99976,403
Saudi Arabia11:30,855,81763,028
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
Tunisia11:610,62630,336
Yemen11:26,425,29455,147

El Samra Last Name Facts

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

The surname El Samra is found most frequently in Lebanon. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.

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

The last name El Samra is the 230,851st most frequently held surname on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 4,159,558 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Asia, where 86 percent of El Samra live; 86 percent live in West Asia and 80 percent live in Levant.

The surname El Samra is most widely held in Lebanon, where it is held by 1,002 people, or 1 in 5,626. In Lebanon El Samra is mostly concentrated in: South Governorate, where 53 percent live, Mount Lebanon Governorate, where 17 percent live and Beqaa Governorate, where 12 percent live. Aside from Lebanon this surname is found in 12 countries. It is also found in Syria, where 21 percent live and Egypt, where 14 percent live.

El Samra Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those bearing the last name is primarily Sunni (34%) in Lebanon.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
El Samrai943/
El Sammra941/
El Samri88697/
El-Samra88546/
El Samry884/
El-Samrah821/
El Samrout78410/
El-Samri751/
El Shomry7193/
El Hzomri591/

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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 Samra
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