El Wafa Surname
Approximately 2,708 people bear this surname
El Wafa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egypt | 1,617 | 1:56,856 | 5,426 |
| Jordan | 774 | 1:11,424 | 2,034 |
| Morocco | 204 | 1:169,000 | 29,345 |
| Kuwait | 48 | 1:79,181 | 9,331 |
| United Arab Emirates | 39 | 1:234,930 | 15,673 |
| Tunisia | 9 | 1:67,847 | 8,246 |
| Lebanon | 6 | 1:939,514 | 16,645 |
| Syria | 4 | 1:4,825,256 | 12,827 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
| Yemen | 2 | 1:13,212,647 | 40,633 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
El Wafa (608) may also be a first name.
El Wafa Demographics
El Wafa Religious Adherence
in Lebanon
Religious Adherence
in Lebanon
El Wafa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name El Wafa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname El Wafa is found most frequently in Egypt. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name El Wafa? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 160,920th most frequently used surname on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 2,691,117 people. El Wafa occurs mostly in Africa, where 68 percent of El Wafa live; 68 percent live in North Africa and 60 percent live in Arabic North Africa. It is also the 338,872nd most commonly occurring first name internationally, held by 608 people.
The last name is most frequent in Egypt, where it is carried by 1,617 people, or 1 in 56,856. Beside Egypt this surname is found in 12 countries. It is also found in Jordan, where 29 percent live and Morocco, where 8 percent live.
El Wafa Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the El Wafa last name is chiefly Sunni (40%) in Lebanon.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Wafaa | 93 | 183 | / |
| El Wafai | 93 | 5 | / |
| El Wafas | 93 | 1 | / |
| El Wafahe | 88 | 1 | / |
| El Wafi | 86 | 4,118 | / |
| El Wafy | 86 | 83 | / |
| El Wafe | 86 | 1 | / |
| El Wafeh | 80 | 64 | / |
| El Wafer | 80 | 6 | / |
| El Wafed | 80 | 4 | / |
| El Wafii | 80 | 4 | / |
| El Wasfi | 80 | 4 | / |
| El-Wafai | 80 | 3 | / |
| El Wafey | 80 | 1 | / |
| El Wafih | 80 | 1 | / |
| El Wafie | 80 | 1 | / |
| El Wazzfy | 75 | 1 | / |
| El-Wafi | 71 | 20 | / |
| El Vefai | 67 | 1 | / |
| El Boufi | 53 | 171 | / |
| El Bouffi | 50 | 307 | / |
| El Bouffy | 50 | 4 | / |
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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 Wafa
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