Filali

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Tafilalet, Morocco

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

/filali/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Filali is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country, where it is the 22nd most common surname.

rarermore common
  • MAMorocco≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 26K
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 8K

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)

≈19,000 people, est.

Sources
213 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Morocco, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Tafilalet, Morocco

Sources 1

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

Where in the world(measured from records)

Filali 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 Filali is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MA Morocco#22≈19,000 est.≈1 in 1.8K—Filali89
DZ Algeria#233≈5,300 est.≈1 in 8KlistedFilali43
FR France—≈2,600 est.≈1 in 26K263Filali213
TN Tunisia#917≈840 est.≈1 in 14K—Filali18
ES Spain—5581 in 90K558Filali35
BE Belgium—1801 in 65K308Filali26

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); the dz-kaggle-names register; 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).

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

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

  • Spanish surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Morocco, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Fîlâlî, Filâli, Fīlālī, Filâlî, Fílalí

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Fīlālī, Filālī

  • Indonesian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, United States, Spain, Algeria

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Filäli, Filàli, Filãli

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, Spain, United States, Netherlands

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Filalï

30 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)

19201940196019802000Mustapha Filali, b. 1921Abdellatif Filali, b. 1928Mohammed El Filali, b. 1945Azza Filali, b. 1952Aicha Filali, b. 1956Yasmina Filali, b. 1975FATIMA FILALI IDRISSI, b. 1975Mehdi Filali, 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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Filali, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Filali
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—558#7,320
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—558#7,309
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—308#5,537
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991263—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981253—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971249—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961184—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008180#9,323
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195125—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19417—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19313—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19213—

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 Filali mean, and where does it come from?
Tafilalet, Morocco Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
How do you pronounce Filali?
A machine transcription gives /filali/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Filali have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Filali in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled filali.
How common is the name Filali?
In Spain, the national register counted 558 people named Filali, about 1 in 90 thousand residents.
How common is Filali compared with other names?
In Morocco, Filali is the 22nd most common surname of 211,124 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, “Filali” — the 22nd most common surname in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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