Oussama
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əssɑmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Oussama is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country, where it is the 30th most common given name.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 337(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 460
- TNTunisia≈1 in 656
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
- 156 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 337 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 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.
Sources 1
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Oussama 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 | #30 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 337 | listed | Oussama | 140 |
| DZ Algeria | #14 | ≈93,000 est. | ≈1 in 460 | #1 | Oussama | 89 |
| TN Tunisia | #28 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 656 | — | Oussama | 89 |
| FR France | — | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | 3K | Oussama | 8 |
| ES Spain | — | 5,136 | 1 in 9.7K | 5.1K | Oussama | 70 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | 2 | Oussama | 63 |
| LB Lebanon | #907 | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Oussama | 60 |
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: the ma-etatcivil-authorized-given-names register; the dz-kaggle-names register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
- Usama ibn Munqidhb. 1095SYnot in their usual nameArabic poet
- Osama bin Ladenb. 1957SAnot in their usual nameSaudi terrorist and co-founder of al-Qaeda (1957–2011)
- Osama Hawsawib. 1984SAnot in their usual nameSaudi Arabian footballer
- Oussama Melloulib. 1984TNTunisian swimmer
- Oussama Assaidib. 1988NLMoroccan association football player
- Osama Elsamnib. 1988JPnot in their usual nameJapanese association football player
- Oussama Haddadib. 1992TNTunisian association football player
- Osama Rashidb. 1992IQnot in their usual nameIraqi/Dutch footballer
- Oussama Oueslatib. 1996TNTunisian taekwondo athlete
- Oussama El Azzouzib. 2001NLMoroccan-Dutch association football player
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 48 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 5.1K | #859 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.4K | #518 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 3K | #999 |
| MA Morocco | Liste des prénoms d'usage au Maroc — official authorized given-names list | — | — | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Oussama?
- A machine transcription gives /əssɑmə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Oussama a male or female name?
- Oussama 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 Oussama?
- In the etymology graph, Osama is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Oussama have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 105 thousand people named Oussama in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oussama.
- How common is the name Oussama?
- In Spain, the national register counted 5,136 people named Oussama, about 1 in 9.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Oussama compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Oussama is the 30th most common given name of 41,711 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Oussama?
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/oussamaThe 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, “Oussama” — the 30th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.