Moctar
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/moktaʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Moctar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Niger than in any other country, where it is the 17th most common given name.
- NENiger≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- SNSenegal≈1 in 2.2K
- BFBurkina Faso≈1 in 3.6K
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.
- Niger (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Niger, 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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moctar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NE Niger | #17 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Moctar | 13 |
| SN Senegal | #129 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 11 | Moctar | 29 |
| BF Burkina Faso | #432 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Moctar | 12 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Moctar | 13 |
| CM Cameroon | #557 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Moctar | 4 |
| TD Chad | #59 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Moctar | 9 |
| US United States | — | 125 | 1 in 2.7M | 122 | Moctar | 61 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Toure Moctarb. 1944SNSenegalese professor of agricultural & nutritional sciences
- Jean Benkhelilb. 1949FRnot in their usual nameFrench scholar
- Moctar Ouaneb. 1955MLMalian politician
- Moctar Salem Ould Mohamedb. 1978FRPh.D. Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Etienne 2009
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 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 122 | #49,509 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 11 | #60 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #49,509 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Moctar?
- A machine transcription gives /moktaʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Moctar a male or female name?
- Moctar 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 Moctar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Moctar in the Niger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moctar.
- How common is the name Moctar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 125 people named Moctar in 2020, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
- How common is Moctar compared with other names?
- In the Niger, Moctar is the 17th most common given name of 220 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Moctar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moctarThe 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, “Moctar” — the 17th most common given name in Niger. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.