Wesef Surname

5,812,366th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 11 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Egypt
Highest density in:
Sweden

Wesef Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Wesef Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Egypt91:10,215,08448,153
Algeria11:38,631,551130,422
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448

Wesef Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Wesef Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Wesef is carried by more people in Egypt than any other country/territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Wesef? popularity and diffusion

The last name Wesef is the 5,812,366th most frequently occurring surname internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 662,504,174 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 91 percent of Wesef reside; 91 percent reside in North Africa and 82 percent reside in Arabic North Africa.

The surname is most frequently occurring in Egypt, where it is held by 9 people, or 1 in 10,215,084. Apart from Egypt this last name exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Algeria, where 9 percent are found and Sweden, where 9 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Wessef912/
Weissef830/
Wasef805,145/
Wezef804/
Wassef738,906/
Waseef73406/
Wazeef739/
Weshew734/
Wasief732/
Wessew731/
Witsef731/
Wuesew731/
Washef731/
Weishew6726/
Wasseff674/
Wassief673/
Washeff672/
Wiessew672/
Waishef671/
Besseif671/

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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 Wesef
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