Sahli
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sahli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tunisia than in any other country.
- TNTunisia≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 10K
- FRFrance≈1 in 26K
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.
- Tunisia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 212 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, 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)
Sahli 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TN Tunisia | #118 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Sahli | 39 |
| DZ Algeria | #297 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | listed | Sahli | 42 |
| MA Morocco | #468 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Sahli | 47 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 312 | Sahli | 212 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Sahli | 53 |
| CH Switzerland | #753 | 1,343 | 1 in 6.3K | 1.3K | Sahli | 40 |
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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the dz-kaggle-names 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Christian Sahlib. 1825CHSwiss politician (1825-1897)
- Hermann Sahlib. 1856CHSwiss physician (1856-1933)
- Walther Sahlib. 1860CH(1860-1916)
- Ali Sahlib. 1924LYLibyan politician
- Hamadi Sahlib. 1928TNTunisian historian
- Abderrazak Sahlib. 1941TNTunisian painter (1941-2009)
- Yassine Sahlib. 1987TNTunisian association football player
- Manuel Sahlib. 1988CHSwiss politician
- Hamza Sahlib. 1993MAMoroccan athletics competitor
- Houssem SahliTNTunisian actor and director
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 29 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1.3K | #805 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 354 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 317 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 312 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 173 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 43 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 2 | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- In which country does Sahli have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.6 thousand people named Sahli in Tunisia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sahli.
- How common is the name Sahli?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,343 people named Sahli in 2024, about 1 in 6.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Sahli compared with other names?
- In Tunisia, Sahli is the 118th most common surname of 37,763 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sahli?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sahliThe 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, “Sahli” — the 118th most common surname in Tunisia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.