Zeitoun Surname
Approximately 18,408 people bear this surname
Zeitoun Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan | 6,724 | 1:1,315 | 211 |
| Lebanon | 2,579 | 1:2,186 | 414 |
| Egypt | 2,380 | 1:38,628 | 4,006 |
| Syria | 2,031 | 1:9,503 | 879 |
| Palestine | 1,349 | 1:3,372 | 740 |
| France | 1,273 | 1:52,178 | 6,867 |
| Saudi Arabia | 914 | 1:33,759 | 4,846 |
| United States | 252 | 1:1,438,329 | 98,774 |
| Israel | 194 | 1:44,112 | 5,947 |
| Kuwait | 96 | 1:39,591 | 4,718 |
| Canada | 92 | 1:400,496 | 35,373 |
| United Arab Emirates | 83 | 1:110,389 | 9,598 |
| Brazil | 68 | 1:3,148,152 | 91,004 |
| Australia | 60 | 1:449,928 | 35,109 |
| Iraq | 37 | 1:946,531 | 12,381 |
| Sweden | 34 | 1:289,610 | 20,124 |
| Tunisia | 27 | 1:22,616 | 3,533 |
| Dominican Republic | 23 | 1:453,606 | 14,824 |
| Iran | 23 | 1:3,338,371 | 97,100 |
| Switzerland | 21 | 1:391,091 | 29,271 |
| Romania | 20 | 1:1,003,894 | 52,576 |
| England | 18 | 1:3,095,448 | 105,421 |
| Qatar | 16 | 1:147,375 | 16,023 |
| Germany | 16 | 1:5,031,591 | 189,895 |
| Cameroon | 14 | 1:1,483,505 | 83,777 |
| Hong Kong | 9 | 1:815,054 | 3,802 |
| Senegal | 5 | 1:2,915,868 | 5,479 |
| Thailand | 5 | 1:14,127,669 | 603,945 |
| Yemen | 4 | 1:6,606,324 | 25,896 |
| Panama | 4 | 1:978,064 | 12,245 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| Bahrain | 4 | 1:337,152 | 6,054 |
| Libya | 4 | 1:1,560,994 | 3,087 |
| Spain | 3 | 1:15,584,012 | 120,866 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1:18,059,235 | 248,362 |
| Moldova | 2 | 1:1,780,684 | 55,103 |
| Croatia | 2 | 1:2,114,302 | 85,143 |
| Denmark | 2 | 1:2,822,358 | 76,882 |
| Peru | 2 | 1:15,892,062 | 51,966 |
| Gambia | 1 | 1:1,923,451 | 1,043 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Armenia | 1 | 1:2,930,180 | 22,770 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
The alternate forms: Zeïtoun (1) are calculated separately.
Zeitoun (3,652) may also be a first name.
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Zeitoun Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Zeitoun Come From? nationality or country of origin
Zeitoun occurs in Jordan more than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms: Zeïtoun. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Zeitoun? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 29,146th most commonly used last name at a global level, borne by around 1 in 395,890 people. The last name Zeitoun occurs mostly in Asia, where 76 percent of Zeitoun live; 76 percent live in West Asia and 69 percent live in Levant. Zeitoun is also the 116,841st most widely held first name world-wide It is held by 3,652 people.
The last name is most frequently occurring in Jordan, where it is held by 6,724 people, or 1 in 1,315. In Jordan Zeitoun is mostly concentrated in: Amman Governorate, where 43 percent live, Irbid Governorate, where 21 percent live and Aqaba Governorate, where 9 percent live. Apart from Jordan it occurs in 49 countries. It is also found in Lebanon, where 14 percent live and Egypt, where 13 percent live.
Zeitoun Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the surname is predominantly Shiite (55%) in Lebanon.
In The United States those bearing the Zeitoun last name are 11.06% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 64.29% registered with the political party.
The amount Zeitoun earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 152.04% more than the national average, earning R 598,932 per year; in United States they earn 11.98% more than the national average, earning $48,320 USD per year and in Canada they earn 10.49% more than the national average, earning $54,893 CAD per year.
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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
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