Belaïd

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A transliteration of the Arabic surname بلعيد

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Belaïd is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country, where it is the 98th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 4.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 25K
  • TNTunisia≈1 in 6.7K

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.

Algeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈8,900 people, est.

Sources
213 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Algeria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Belaid in FR France, DZ Algeria, MA Morocco and 3 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(measured from records)

A transliteration of the Arabic surname بلعيد

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Belaïd 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 Belaïd is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DZ Algeria#98≈8,900 est.≈1 in 4.8KlistedBelaid49
FR France—≈2,700 est.≈1 in 25K410Belaid213
TN Tunisia#299≈1,800 est.≈1 in 6.7K—Belaid39
MA Morocco#860≈1,400 est.≈1 in 25KlistedBelaid42
LY Libya—≈440 est.≈1 in 16K—Belaid20
ES Spain—3881 in 129K388Belaid29

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). 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)

Belaïd is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Beläid, Bélaïd, Bélaid, Belaid, Belaîd

  • Hindi surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Belaid, Belaîd, Bélaid

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Brazil

    Also written Belaid, Bélaïd

  • a separate surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, United States

    Also written Belaid, Bęlâid, Bëlåíd, Bëläįd

2 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)

1850190019502000Lhadj Belaïd, b. 1873Sadok Belaid, b. 1939Abdelaziz Belaïd, b. 1963Chokri Belaïd, b. 1964Khaled Belaïd, b. 1973Tijani Belaïd, b. 1987Aymen Belaïd, b. 1989Glutonny, b. 1995Zineddine Belaïd, b. 1999

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 4 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia given-name 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

What does the name Belaïd mean, and where does it come from?
A transliteration of the Arabic surname بلعيد Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Belaïd have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 8.9 thousand people named Belaïd in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled belaid.
How common is the name Belaïd?
In Spain, the national register counted 388 people named Belaïd, about 1 in 129 thousand residents.
How common is Belaïd compared with other names?
In Algeria, Belaïd is the 98th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Belaïd” — the 98th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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