Wissam
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wɪsəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wissam is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- LBLebanon≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 5.1K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 6.8K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 224 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,300 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Lebanon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wissam 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | #405 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | listed | Wissam | 30 |
| SY Syria | #757 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Wissam | 42 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Wissam | 59 |
| LB Lebanon | #314 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Wissam | 84 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 2.1K | Wissam | 224 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #701 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Wissam | 79 |
| US United States | — | 816 | 1 in 408K | 725 | Wissam | 203 |
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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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)
- Wissam al-Hassanb. 1965LBLebanese security official (1965-2012)
- Wissam al-Tawilb. 1970LBLebanese militant (1970–2024)
- Wissam Charafb. 1973LBFrench film director
- Zeinab. 1977EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian actress
- Wissem Hmamb. 1981TNnot in their usual nameTunisian handball player
- Wissem Ben Yahiab. 1984TNnot in their usual nameTunisian association football player
- Wissam Toubalb. 1984DZAlgerian chess player
- Wissem Hosnib. 1985TNnot in their usual nameTunisian athlete
- Wissam Ben Yedderb. 1990FRFrench footballer (born 1990)
- Wessam Abou Alib. 1999PSnot in their usual nameDanish-Palestinan association football player
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 46 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 2.1K | #1,125 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 725 | #14,441 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 91 | #14,441 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 7 | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Wissam?
- A machine transcription gives /wɪsəm/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Wissam a male or female name?
- Wissam 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 Wissam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.3 thousand people named Wissam in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wissam.
- How common is the name Wissam?
- In the United States, the national register counted 816 people named Wissam in 2020, about 1 in 408 thousand residents.
- How common is Wissam compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Wissam is the 405th most common given name of 27,215 given names 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/wissamThe 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, “Wissam” — the 405th most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.