El Sheref Surname

1,125,333rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 215 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Egypt
Highest density in:
Egypt

El Sheref Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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El Sheref 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
Egypt2141:429,60625,756
Qatar11:2,357,99976,403

El Sheref Last Name Facts

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

El Sheref is more commonly found in Egypt than any other country/territory. It may also appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of El Sheref click here.

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

This last name is the 1,125,333rd most widespread surname on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 33,895,562 people. This last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of El Sheref live; 100 percent live in North Africa and 100 percent live in Arabic North Africa.

It is most common in Egypt, where it is borne by 214 people, or 1 in 429,606. Aside from Egypt it exists in one country. It also occurs in Qatar, where 0 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 Sherief95706/
El Shereif95215/
El Shereef95156/
El Sherieff904/
El Sherif8973,788/
El Shiref89183/
El Sharef89154/
El-Sheref895/
El-Sherief84787/
El Shareef84325/
El-Shereef84154/
El Sheriff8423/
El Sharief8416/
El Shareif847/
El-Shereif845/
El Sherife844/
El Shireef844/
El-Sherif789,242/
El Sharif781,148/
El Cherif78369/
El Sherib784/
El-Sharef782/
El Sareef781/
El-Sharief74124/
El-Shareif7414/
El-Shareef7413/
El-Sheriff742/
El Shariff741/
El Cherife741/
El Sarif71261/
El-Serif711/
El-Sharif67513/
El-Cherif679/
El Chérif671/
El Serheib631/
El-Scharif631/
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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 Sheref
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