Names distinctive to Lebanon

The list of names unique to the Lebanese Republic*

Female forenames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank

Male forenames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank
1. طوني 20% 1.

Surnames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank
1. شمص 100% 3.
2. الحجيري 29% 1.
3. زعيتر 22% 2.
4. حمية 100% 5.
5. امهز 100% 6.
6. عواضة 100% 8.
7. ناصرالدين 85% 7.
8. عطوي 34% 4.

Distinctive names in
the related** countries

CountrySimilarity
Syrian Arab Republic (the) 45%
Kuwait 39%
Libya 39%
Egypt 35%
Saudi Arabia 34%
Iraq 33%
Qatar 32%
Sudan (the) 32%
Oman 32%

*The rank of the unique name is the geometric average of the name uniqueness and the name prevalence in the respective country. Name uniqueness is measured only by the exact grapheme form (not taking into account transliterational equivalents or phonetic similarities).

** Country similarity is the correlation of the relative frequency of the names shared by two countries (as measured by cosine similarity).