Driss
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʁajs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Driss is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 389(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 7.1K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 7.4K
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.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 263 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 389 (inferred from the name graph)
≈91,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Driss 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #309 | ≈91,000 est. | ≈1 in 389 | listed | Driss | 83 |
| FR France | #782 | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 4.8K | Driss | 263 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,915 | 1 in 10K | 4.9K | Driss | 30 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 13K | listed | Driss | 11 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 2 | Driss | 23 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | 40 | Driss | 40 |
| GP Guadeloupe | — | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | 5 | — | 5 |
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 prénoms (1900–2024); the ma-etatcivil-authorized-given-names register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Driss is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, shit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Idris Bitlisib. 1452TRnot in their usual nameOttomon civil servant
- Driss Guigab. 1924TNTunisian politician
- Driss Basrib. 1938MAMoroccan politician (1938-2007)
- Driss El Khourib. 1939MAMoroccan writer (1939-2022)
- Driss Bamousb. 1942MAMoroccan footballer (1942-2015)
- Driss Jettoub. 1945MAPrime Minister of Morocco
- Driss Roukheb. 1968MAMoroccan actor
- Driss Maazouzib. 1969FRFrench athlete
- Driss Benzekrib. 1970MAMoroccan footballer
- Driss Trichardb. 1995FRFrench 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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.9K | #892 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 4.8K | #1,314 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.4K | #436 |
| GP Guadeloupe | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe) | 2006 | 5 | #117 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 2 | #3,340 |
| MA Morocco | Liste des prénoms d'usage au Maroc — official authorized given-names list | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Driss?
- A machine transcription gives /dʁajs/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Driss a male or female name?
- Driss 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.
- What are other forms of the name Driss?
- In the etymology graph, Idrissa is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Driss have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 91 thousand people named Driss in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled driss.
- How common is the name Driss?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,915 people named Driss, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Driss compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Driss is the 309th most common given name of 41,711 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Driss?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/drissThe 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, “Driss” — the 309th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.