Al-Assad
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Al-Assad is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 4K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 1.9M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
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.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Syria, 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 Alassad in SY Syria, KW Kuwait, SA Saudi Arabia and 2 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Al-Assad is found
(measured from records)Al-Assad 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | #194 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Alassad | 19 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 222K | — | Alassad | 11 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Al-Assad | 7 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Alassad | 4 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 193K | — | Alassad | 9 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Alassad | 13 |
| ES Spain | — | 9 | 1 in 5.6M | 9 | — | 2 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)- Hafez Assadb. 1930SYnot in their usual namePresident of Syria from 1971 to 2000
- Bashar al-Assadb. 1965SYnot in their usual namePresident of Syria from 2000 to 2024
- Asma al-Assadb. 1975GBnot in their usual nameFirst Lady of Syrian Arab Republic (2000-2024)
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Al-Assad?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.2 thousand people named Al-Assad in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alassad. After it come Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon and United Arab Emirates; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Al-Assad?
- In Spain, the national register counted 9 people named Al-Assad, about 1 in 5.6 million residents.
- How common is Al-Assad compared with other names?
- In Syria, Al-Assad is the 194th most common surname of 190,062 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/al-assadThe 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, “Al-Assad” — the 194th most common surname in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.