Ghalem
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡalɛm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ghalem is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 97K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 19K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 55K
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)
- Sources
- 148 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, 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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ghalem 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.
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). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 109 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 98 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 97 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 96 | #28,405 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 96 | #28,244 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 64 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 31 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 25 | #41,441 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ghalem?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡalɛm/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Ghalem have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Ghalem in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ghalem.
- How common is the name Ghalem?
- In Spain, the national register counted 96 people named Ghalem, about 1 in 521 thousand residents.
- How common is Ghalem compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Ghalem is the 793rd most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ghalem?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ghalemThe 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, “Ghalem” — the 793rd most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.