Names of Morocco MA
The names that most distinguish Morocco from the rest of the world are Mohamed, Rachid and Youssef; in our record corpus the commonest names held in Morocco are Mohamed and Alaoui.
Written in Arabic, French.
- Population
- 36M
- Name forms recorded
- 78K
At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.
How names work in Morocco
2 naming traditions are in use in Morocco, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.
The most common names in Morocco
| # | Name | Estimated bearers | How common |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mohamed | — | — |
| 2 | Fatima | — | — |
| 3 | Ahmed | — | — |
| 4 | Rachid | — | — |
| 5 | Youssef | — | — |
| 6 | Hamza | — | — |
| 7 | Said | — | — |
| 8 | Ayoub | — | — |
| 9 | Khadija | — | — |
| 10 | Amine | — | — |
| 12 | Khalid | — | — |
| 13 | Yassine | — | — |
| 14 | فاطمة | — | — |
| 15 | Zakaria | — | — |
| 16 | Omar | — | — |
| 17 | Ali | — | — |
| 18 | Simo | — | — |
| 19 | Brahim | — | — |
| 20 | Zahra | — | — |
| 21 | Hicham | — | — |
No official register
Characteristic of Morocco
Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Morocco holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.
Scripts & spelling
Names in Morocco are written in Latin (82%), Arabic (9%) and Hebrew (9%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.
Countries whose names look alike
Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.
Registers & sources
Cited works
Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.
- Arab Naming Conventionspaper
- 50 Famous Amazigh Namesweb
- Amazigh (Berber) Tribeweb
- Amazigh names approved in Moroccoweb
- Arabic nameencyclopaedia
- Berbersencyclopaedia
- Casablanca Authorities Refuse To Register Girl With Amazigh Nameweb
- Ethnic Identity in Berber Family Namesweb
- How Arabic Names Work: A Guide to Ism, Nasab, Laqab, Nisba, and Kunyaweb
- Iraqiweb
- Morocco: Lift Restrictions on Amazigh (Berber) Namesweb
- Morocco/Western Sahara: More Freedom to Name Their Childrenweb
- Naming Conventions throughout the Arab Worldweb
- Tifinaghencyclopaedia
- Understanding Arabic Naming Conventionsweb
About this data
Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.
Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.
Questions
- Is there an official list of the most common names in Morocco?
- We have not found one at an authority tier we would publish. The ranking on this page comes from our own record corpus and is labelled as such. If a register exists, we would like to hear about it.
- Is there one naming system in Morocco?
- No — 2 are described on this page (Arabic, Amazigh Berber), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.
Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Morocco”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/MA (data snapshot 2026-10-09).