Elkai Surname
Approximately 290 people bear this surname
Elkai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morocco | 273 | 1:126,286 | 22,036 |
| Papua New Guinea | 12 | 1:679,476 | 78,554 |
| Lebanon | 3 | 1:1,879,028 | 22,073 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Elkai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Elkai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Elkai occurs most in Morocco. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Elkai click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Elkai? popularity and diffusion
It is the 914,967th most commonly occurring last name at a global level. It is borne by around 1 in 25,129,469 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 94 percent of Elkai reside; 94 percent reside in North Africa and 94 percent reside in Mahgreb.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Morocco, where it is held by 273 people, or 1 in 126,286. Aside from Morocco this last name occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 4 percent are found and Lebanon, where 1 percent are found.
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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 Elkai
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