El-Zein
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
El-Zein is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 153K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 948K
- LBLebanon≈1 in 27K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 112 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Lebanon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Elzein in US United States, LB Lebanon, EG Egypt and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
El-Zein counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 581K | — | Elzein | 1 |
| SD Sudan | #918 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Elzein | 15 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | El-Zein | 52 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 294K | — | Elzein | 22 |
| US United States | — | 351 | 1 in 948K | 467 | Elzein | 112 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Elzein | 21 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Elzein | 23 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Elzein | 10 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does El-Zein have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named El-Zein in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elzein.
- How common is the name El-Zein?
- In the United States, the national register counted 351 people named El-Zein in 2010, about 1 in 948 thousand residents.
- How common is El-Zein compared with other names?
- In the Sudan, El-Zein is the 918th most common surname of 11,073 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about El-Zein?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/el-zeinThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “El-Zein” — the 918th most common surname in Sudan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.