Amalou

surname · Latin script

Meaning: shadow; modesty; place: Constantine

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Amalou is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 469K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 646K
  • ESSpain1 in 1.4M

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.

Spain (measured from records)

37 people

Sources
24 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 469K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

shadow; modesty; place: Constantine

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Where in the world(measured from records)

Amalou 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.

Where Amalou is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain371 in 1.4M37—3
BE Belgium251 in 469K25Amalou5
CH Switzerland131 in 646K13—1
PL Poland51 in 7.7M3——
MA Morocco≈4 est.≈1 in 9.9M—Amalou24

37 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Amalou is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Also written Amàloù, Amaloù

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1930194019501960Abderrahmane Amalou, b. 1938Abderrahmane Amalou, b. 1954Pierre Amalou, b. 1955

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)

Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Amalou
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—37#55,293
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—37#54,555
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200825#41,438
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202413#50,156
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#248,606
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#303,670

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

What does the name Amalou mean, and where does it come from?
shadow; modesty; place: Constantine Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
In which country does Amalou have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 37 people named Amalou, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Amalou most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Amalou is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 469 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Amalou?
In Spain, the national register counted 37 people named Amalou, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.

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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, “Amalou”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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