Alaoui
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɑɫəwi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alaoui is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common surname.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 552(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 17K
- BEBelgium1 in 57K
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
- 264 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 552 (inferred from the name graph)
≈64,000 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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alaoui 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 | #2 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 552 | — | Alaoui | 135 |
| FR France | #698 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 152 | Alaoui | 264 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Alaoui | 16 |
| ES Spain | — | 742 | 1 in 67K | 742 | Alaoui | 59 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Alaoui | 22 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Alaoui | 45 |
| BE Belgium | #564 | 205 | 1 in 57K | 357 | Alaoui | 39 |
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 noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
- Moulay Ali Alaouib. 1924MAMoroccan prince
- Princess Lalla Meryem of Moroccob. 1962MAnot in their usual namealawite princess of Morocco
- Lalla Joumala Alaouib. 1962MAMoroccan diplomat
- Moulay Hicham ben Abdellah el-Alaouib. 1964MAMoroccan royal
- Amina Alaouib. 1964MAmusician, music interpreter
- Selma Alaouib. 1980MAFrench actor
- Morjana Alaouib. 1982MAMoroccan actress
- Leila Alaouib. 1982FRMoroccan-French photographer & video artist (1982-2016)
- Sanâa Alaouib. 1987MAMoroccan-French actress
- Zakaria Alaouifilm producer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 742 | #5,767 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 742 | #5,760 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 357 | #4,608 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 205 | #8,217 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 152 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 139 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 101 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Alaoui?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑɫəwi/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- In which country does Alaoui have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 64 thousand people named Alaoui in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alaoui.
- How common is the name Alaoui?
- In Spain, the national register counted 742 people named Alaoui, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
- How common is Alaoui compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Alaoui is the 2nd most common surname of 211,124 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/alaouiThe 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, “Alaoui” — the 2nd most common surname in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.