Bakkali
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bakkali is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country, where it is the 27th most common surname.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 26K
- ESSpain1 in 31K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 172 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bakkali 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 | #27 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Bakkali | 77 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,594 | 1 in 31K | 1.6K | Bakkali | 55 |
| FR France | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 72K | 56 | Bakkali | 172 |
| BE Belgium | #507 | 448 | 1 in 26K | 691 | Bakkali | 35 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 278 | 1 in 62K | 278 | Bakkali | 22 |
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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
- Ahmed Abdessalam Bakkalib. 1932MAMoroccan poet and playwright (1932-2010)
- Ouidad Bakkalib. 1986ITItalian politician (born 1986)
- Nabil Bakkalib. 1987NLDutch criminal
- Zakaria Bakkalib. 1996BEBelgian footballer
- Mohammed BakkaliESresearcher
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 15 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.6K | #2,940 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.6K | #2,936 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 691 | #2,067 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 448 | #3,444 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 278 | #7,448 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 72 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 56 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 45 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | — | — |
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
- In which country does Bakkali have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Bakkali in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bakkali.
- How common is the name Bakkali?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,594 people named Bakkali, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
- How common is Bakkali compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Bakkali is the 27th 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/bakkaliThe 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, “Bakkali” — the 27th most common surname in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.