Mokhtàr

Name: Mokhtàr: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Mokhtàr is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. In Malaysia it is the 77th most common surname.

rarermore common

MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
EGEgypt≈1 in 1.9K
DZAlgeria≈1 in 4.4K

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: 216 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Mokhtar

Locally spelled Mokhtar in MY Malaysia, EG Egypt, US United States 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.

Sources 1

Nordic Names

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mokhtàr 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.

Where Mokhtàr is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
EG Egypt	#151	≈54,000 est.	≈1 in 1.9K	listed	Mokhtar	135
MY Malaysia	#77	≈20,000 est.	≈1 in 1.6K	—	Mokhtar	102
ID Indonesia	—	≈15,000 est.	≈1 in 18K	—	Mokhtar	48
SD Sudan	#528	≈12,000 est.	≈1 in 3.7K	1	Mokhtar	19
DZ Algeria	#105	≈9,800 est.	≈1 in 4.4K	listed	Mokhtar	68
TN Tunisia	#307	≈2,000 est.	≈1 in 5.8K	—	Mokhtar	51
US United States	—	202	1 in 1.6M	308	Mokhtar	141

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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mokhtàr is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Italian surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Italy, Malaysia, United States
Also written Mokhtar

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Mokhtàr under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Mokhtàr a male or female name?: Mokhtàr is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Mokhtàr have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 54 thousand people named Mokhtàr in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mokhtar.
How common is the name Mokhtàr?: In the United States, the national register counted 202 people named Mokhtàr in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
How common is Mokhtàr compared with other names?: In Egypt, Mokhtàr is the 151st 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/mokht%C3%A0r

The 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 2026-10-10 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, “Mokhtàr” — the 151st most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)