Mouktar Surname
Approximately 3,120 people bear this surname
Mouktar Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chad | 1,733 | 1:7,843 | 1,090 |
| Cameroon | 894 | 1:23,232 | 3,152 |
| Egypt | 153 | 1:600,887 | 32,813 |
| Djibouti | 150 | 1:6,100 | 439 |
| Nigeria | 82 | 1:2,160,278 | 74,262 |
| Niger | 54 | 1:355,408 | 10,225 |
| France | 29 | 1:2,290,439 | 180,028 |
| Mauritania | 9 | 1:454,985 | 17,374 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| Algeria | 3 | 1:12,877,184 | 84,902 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Libya | 1 | 1:6,243,974 | 6,186 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| South Sudan | 1 | 1:11,415,076 | 3,182 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
Mouktar (3,466) may also be a first name.
Mouktar Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mouktar Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Mouktar (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﻤﺨﺘﺎﺭ, Marathi: मुकतार) is found in Chad more than any other country/territory. It may occur as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Mouktar? popularity and diffusion
Mouktar is the 142,598th most numerous last name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 2,335,752 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Mouktar live; 82 percent live in West Africa and 66 percent live in Chadic Africa. It is also the 120,745th most frequently used first name worldwide, borne by 3,466 people.
The surname is most frequently used in Chad, where it is carried by 1,733 people, or 1 in 7,843. Not including Chad this last name exists in 17 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 29 percent are found and Egypt, where 5 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Mouktar Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Mouktar in the Marathi language | ||
| मुकतार | mukatara | - |
| Mouktar in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﻤﺨﺘﺎﺭ | almkhtar | 77.78 |
| ﻣﺨﺘﺎﺭ | mkhtar | 22.22 |
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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 Mouktar
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