El Wafa Surname

160,920th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 2,708 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Egypt
Highest density in:
Jordan

El Wafa Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

El Wafa Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Egypt1,6171:56,8565,426
Jordan7741:11,4242,034
Morocco2041:169,00029,345
Kuwait481:79,1819,331
United Arab Emirates391:234,93015,673
Tunisia91:67,8478,246
Lebanon61:939,51416,645
Syria41:4,825,25612,827
Indonesia21:66,124,597756,638
Yemen21:13,212,64740,633
Australia11:26,995,701270,794
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297

El Wafa (608) may also be a first name.

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

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
El Wafaa93183/
El Wafai935/
El Wafas931/
El Wafahe881/
El Wafi864,118/
El Wafy8683/
El Wafe861/
El Wafeh8064/
El Wafer806/
El Wafed804/
El Wafii804/
El Wasfi804/
El-Wafai803/
El Wafey801/
El Wafih801/
El Wafie801/
El Wazzfy751/
El-Wafi7120/
El Vefai671/
El Boufi53171/
El Bouffi50307/
El Bouffy504/

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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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