Illouz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: turban, almonds; famous; Morocco/Italy/Safed/Mallorca
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɪluz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Illouz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 107K
- ILIsrael1 in 2Kas אילוז
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Illouz itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 177 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
4,383 named אילוז, 2017
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled אילוז in IL Israel, MA Morocco, QA Qatar and 2 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)
turban, almonds; famous; Morocco/Italy/Safed/Mallorca
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Illouz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #174 | 4,383as אילוז | 1 in 2K | 4.4K | אילוז | 48 |
| MA Morocco | #269 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | אילוז | 4 |
| QA Qatar | #155 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | אילוז | 1 |
| FR France | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 107K | 96 | Illouz | 177 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | אילוז | 1 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | אילוז | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 3 |
4,383 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Yes-Gerard Illovzb. 1929FRnot in their usual nameFrench surgeon
- Antoine Illouzb. 1959FRFrench jazz trumpeter
- Eva Illouzb. 1961ILIsraeli sociologist and university professor
- Thierry Illouzb. 1961FRFrench lawyer and writer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 96 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 90 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 77 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 67 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 5 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 1 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Illouz mean, and where does it come from?
- turban, almonds; famous; Morocco/Italy/Safed/Mallorca Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Illouz?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪluz/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
- In which country does Illouz have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named אילוז, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Illouz?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 4 people named Illouz in 2024, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
- How common is Illouz compared with other names?
- In Israel, Illouz is the 174th most common surname of 325,634 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/illouzThe 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, “Illouz” — the 174th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.