Sàhraoui
surname · Latin script
Sàhraoui is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country, where it is the 28th most common surname. Recorded meaning: from the Sahara desert; principal place Sefrou.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 2.9Kfew records
- MAMorocco≈1 in 5.9K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 215 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈27,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Algeria, 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 Sahraoui in FR France, DZ Algeria, MA Morocco and 3 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)from the Sahara desert; principal place Sefrou
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Where the surname Sàhraoui is found
(measured from records)Sàhraoui 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | #28 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | listed | Sahraoui | 55 |
| MA Morocco | #263 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Sahraoui | 47 |
| TN Tunisia | #270 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Sahraoui | 29 |
| FR France | #990 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 508 | Sahraoui | 215 |
| ES Spain | — | 608 | 1 in 82K | 608 | Sahraoui | 26 |
| NO Norway | — | 76 | 1 in 72K | 76 | Sahraoui | 7 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sàhraoui mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Sahara desert; principal place Sefrou Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sàhraoui?
- Mondonomo estimates about 27 thousand people named Sàhraoui in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sahraoui. After it come Morocco, Tunisia, France and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sàhraoui?
- In Spain, the national register counted 608 people named Sàhraoui, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
- How common is Sàhraoui compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Sàhraoui is the 28th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A0hraouiThe 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, “Sàhraoui” — the 28th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.