El-Baz
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
El-Baz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Arabic البَاز (al-bāz, “falcon, bird of prey”), in some cases via Hebrew אלבז (the surname is common among Jews from the Maghreb).
- ILIsrael≈1 in 3.1Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 7.1K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 7.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 166 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, 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 Elbaz in EG Egypt, US United States, MA Morocco 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
(measured from records)- Arabicالبَازal-bāz“falcon, bird of prey”(measured from records)
- Hebrewאלבזthe surname is common among Jews from the Maghreb(measured from records)
From Arabic البَاز (al-bāz, “falcon, bird of prey”), in some cases via Hebrew אלבז (the surname is common among Jews from the Maghreb).
Cited for this meaning 1
Where the surname El-Baz is found
(measured from records)El-Baz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #595 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Elbaz | 67 |
| MA Morocco | #445 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Elbaz | 56 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Elbaz | 51 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 291 | Elbaz | 6 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Elbaz | 25 |
| US United States | — | 483 | 1 in 689K | 757 | Elbaz | 166 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Elbaz | 4 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Osama El-Bazb. 1931EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian diplomat
- Farouk El-Bazb. 1938EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian scientist
- Houssine El Bazb. 1957MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan singer in Tashelhit
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name El-Baz mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic البَاز (al-bāz, “falcon, bird of prey”), in some cases via Hebrew אלבז (the surname is common among Jews from the Maghreb). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname El-Baz?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named El-Baz in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elbaz. After it come Morocco, Israel, France and Saudi Arabia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name El-Baz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 483 people named El-Baz in 2010, about 1 in 689 thousand residents.
- How common is El-Baz compared with other names?
- In Egypt, El-Baz is the 595th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.
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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-bazThe 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-Baz” — the 595th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.