Lahcen
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lahcen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 643(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 14K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 7.3K
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)
- Sources
- 229 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 643 (inferred from the name graph)
≈55,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Morocco, 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)
Lahcen 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 | #743 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 643 | listed | Lahcen | 46 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | listed | Lahcen | 9 |
| FR France | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 1.1K | Lahcen | 229 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,132 | 1 in 16K | 3.1K | Lahcen | 24 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 87K | 1 | Lahcen | 8 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 23 | Lahcen | 24 |
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 prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
- Lahcen Chichab. 1926MAassociation football player
- Lahcen Zinounb. 1944MAMoroccan choreographer (1944–2024)
- Lahcen Haddadb. 1960MAMoroccan politician
- Lahcen Ahansalb. 1971MAMoroccan ultramarathon runner
- Lahcen Ikassrienb. 1972MAMoroccan Guantanamo detainee
- Lahcen Saberb. 1990MAMoroccan bicycle racer
- Lahcen Razzouguiactor
- Lahcen QannaniMAMoroccan philosopher, researcher and playwright
- Lahcen LakhnifriMAMoroccan singer
- Lahcen KhabbazMAMoroccan film editor
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 31 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 71 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 68 | #35,880 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 68 | #35,845 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 55 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 52 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 52 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 45 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 23 | #43,359 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 4 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Is Lahcen a male or female name?
- Lahcen is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Lahcen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 55 thousand people named Lahcen in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lahcen.
- How common is the name Lahcen?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,132 people named Lahcen, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Lahcen compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Lahcen is the 743rd most common given name of 41,711 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lahcen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lahcenThe 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, “Lahcen” — the 743rd most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.