El-Khatib
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əɫkætɪb/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
El-Khatib is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic الخطيب. This surname is mostly found in Egypt.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 26K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 502K
- LBLebanon≈1 in 37K
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 155 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Egypt, 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 Elkhatib in US United States, EG Egypt, LB Lebanon 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)
Borrowed from Arabic الخطيب. This surname is mostly found in Egypt.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
El-Khatib 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 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Elkhatib | 73 |
| US United States | 663 | 1 in 502K | 876 | Elkhatib | 155 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Elkhatib | 24 |
| MA Morocco | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Elkhatib | 16 |
| JO Jordan | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | El-Khatib | 17 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Elkhatib | 47 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Elkhatib | 18 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Elkhatib | 14 |
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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Oliver El-Khatibb. 1986CAnot in their usual namefounder of OVO Sound and Manager of Drake
- Ali El-Khatibb. 1989ILnot in their usual namePalestinian—Arab-Israeli footballer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name El-Khatib mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Arabic الخطيب. This surname is mostly found in Egypt. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce El-Khatib?
- A machine transcription gives /əɫkætɪb/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- In which country does El-Khatib have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named El-Khatib in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elkhatib.
- How common is the name El-Khatib?
- In the United States, the national register counted 663 people named El-Khatib in 2010, about 1 in 502 thousand residents.
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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-khatibThe 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-Khatib”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.