Moussaoui
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/musawi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Moussaoui is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country, where it is the 28th most common surname.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 2.8K
- FRFrance≈1 in 11K
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 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 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.
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moussaoui 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 | #28 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Moussaoui | 65 |
| DZ Algeria | #37 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | listed | Moussaoui | 46 |
| FR France | #502 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 702 | Moussaoui | 229 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,759 | 1 in 28K | 1.8K | Moussaoui | 44 |
| CN China | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Moussaoui | 3 |
| TN Tunisia | #994 | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Moussaoui | 16 |
| BE Belgium | #385 | 504 | 1 in 23K | 846 | Moussaoui | 39 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names). 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)
- Abu al-Qasim al-Khoeib. 1899IRnot in their usual nameIranian-Iraqi Islamic scholar
- Mir-Hossein Mousavib. 1941IRnot in their usual nameIranian architect and politician
- Abdolrahim Mousavib. 1960IRnot in their usual nameIranian military officer and chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces (1960–2026)
- Razi Mousavib. 1963IRnot in their usual nameIranian general (1962–2023)
- Farshid Moussavib. 1965IRnot in their usual nameIranian-born British architect
- Seyed Majid Mousavib. 1965IRnot in their usual nameIranian general
- Zacarias Moussaouib. 1968FRFrench citizen and convicted criminal associated with the September 11 attacks; Al-Qaeda operative
- Granaz Moussavib. 1974IRnot in their usual nameIranian-Australian poet, film director and screenwriter
- Mohammad Mousavib. 1987IRnot in their usual nameIranian volleyball player
- Rina Mousavinot in their usual namePersian-Australian actress
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 22 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.8K | #2,699 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.8K | #2,697 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 846 | #1,631 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 702 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 665 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 571 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 504 | #2,994 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 479 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 148 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 7 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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
- How do you pronounce Moussaoui?
- A machine transcription gives /musawi/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Moussaoui have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Moussaoui in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moussaoui.
- How common is the name Moussaoui?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,759 people named Moussaoui, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
- How common is Moussaoui compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Moussaoui is the 28th most common surname of 211,124 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moussaouiThe 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, “Moussaoui” — the 28th most common surname in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.