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Surnames of Middle East

โ€ข version: public โ€ข created: Mid-2024

Introduction

This post explores the most common surnames across the Middle East through wordcloud visualisation. Outer boundaries of this region has many definitions, depending on classification purpose, classifying organization, historical period. Here, it includes selected countries of Western Asia (the European portion of Tรผrkiye is shown), Southern Asia, and Northern Africa from "UN M49, Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use (Series M, No. 49)" โŽ‹. Political boundaries shown according to their "de facto" status โŽ‹. Data came from Forebears.io โŽ‹.

Charts and figures

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Fig 1. Surnames of Middle East.

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Surnames of Middle East - Arabian peninsula, Levant<sup>โ€ </sup>, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Tรผrkiye, Afghanistan, Pakistan<br>(raster, .jpeg | converted from .svg with vincerubinetti.github.io/svg-to-png/) [method 1]
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Surnames of Middle East - Arabian peninsula, Levant<sup>โ€ </sup>, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Tรผrkiye, Afghanistan, Pakistan (raw vector, .svg)๏ธ [method 1]
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Surnames of Middle East - Surnames of Middle East | Arabian peninsula, Levant<sup>โ€ </sup>, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Tรผrkiye, Afghanistan, Pakistan (true raster, .jpeg)๏ธ [method 2]

Read more about local naming customs at Familysearch.org's wiki โŽ‹: Afghanistan Naming Customs โŽ‹, Kuwait Naming Customs โŽ‹, State of Palestine Naming Customs โŽ‹, etc. Also, for some countries and regions you can find academic papers that explain how names were forming there.

Fig 2. Surnames of Middle East, by country.

AFG_wordcloud (raw vector, .svg)๏ธ

๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ซ Afghanistan ๐Ÿ”—

IRN_wordcloud (raw vector, .svg)๏ธ

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท Iran ๐Ÿ”—

JOR_wordcloud (raw vector, .svg)๏ธ

๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ด Jordan ๐Ÿ”—

OMN_wordcloud (raw vector, .svg)๏ธ

๐Ÿ‡ด๐Ÿ‡ฒ Oman ๐Ÿ”—

QAT_wordcloud (raw vector, .svg)๏ธ

๐Ÿ‡ถ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Qatar ๐Ÿ”—

TUR_wordcloud (raw vector, .svg)๏ธ

๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท Tรผrkiye ๐Ÿ”—

ARE_wordcloud (raw vector, .svg)๏ธ

๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช United Arab Emirates ๐Ÿ”—

IRQ_wordcloud (raw vector, .svg)๏ธ

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ถ Iraq ๐Ÿ”—

KWT_wordcloud (raw vector, .svg)๏ธ

๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ผ Kuwait ๐Ÿ”—

PAK_wordcloud (raw vector, .svg)๏ธ

๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ Pakistan ๐Ÿ”—

SAU_wordcloud (raw vector, .svg)๏ธ

๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Saudi Arabia ๐Ÿ”—

YEM_wordcloud (raw vector, .svg)๏ธ

๐Ÿ‡พ๐Ÿ‡ช Yemen ๐Ÿ”—

EGY_wordcloud (raw vector, .svg)๏ธ

๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt ๐Ÿ”—

ISR_wordcloud (raw vector, .svg)๏ธ

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Israelโ€  ๐Ÿ”—

LBN_wordcloud (raw vector, .svg)๏ธ

๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง Lebanon ๐Ÿ”—

PSE_wordcloud (raw vector, .svg)๏ธ

๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ Palestineโ€  ๐Ÿ”—

SYR_wordcloud (raw vector, .svg)๏ธ

๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡พ Syria ๐Ÿ”—

Sorry, Bahrain area is less than borders dataset resolution allowed to prepare a mask. It will be added in next versions.

๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ญ Bahrain ๐Ÿ”—

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