El Tahir Surname
Approximately 7,681 people bear this surname
El Tahir Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sudan | 7,280 | 1:5,152 | 743 |
| Saudi Arabia | 358 | 1:86,189 | 12,374 |
| Egypt | 9 | 1:10,215,084 | 48,153 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| United Arab Emirates | 8 | 1:1,145,284 | 40,289 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 1:9,831,408 | 269,765 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
El Tahir (1,995) may also be a first name.
El Tahir Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name El Tahir Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname El Tahir is found most in Sudan. It may occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name El Tahir? popularity and diffusion
The surname El Tahir is the 65,043rd most frequently used family name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 948,776 people. El Tahir occurs mostly in Africa, where 95 percent of El Tahir are found; 95 percent are found in North Africa and 95 percent are found in Arabic North Africa. El Tahir is also the 169,261st most commonly used given name in the world, borne by 1,995 people.
The surname El Tahir is most frequently used in Sudan, where it is carried by 7,280 people, or 1 in 5,152. Aside from Sudan El Tahir occurs in 16 countries. It also occurs in Saudi Arabia, where 5 percent live and Egypt, where 0 percent live.
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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
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