Yahyaoui

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Yahyaoui is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tunisia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic الْيَحْيَاوِي (al-yaḥyāwī).

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 29K(inferred from the name graph)
  • TNTunisia≈1 in 1.4K
  • MAMorocco≈1 in 5.5K

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)

≈8,200 people, est.

Sources
183 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Tunisia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Borrowed from Arabic الْيَحْيَاوِي (al-yaḥyāwī).

Sources 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Yahyaoui 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.

Where Yahyaoui is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TN Tunisia#425≈8,200 est.≈1 in 1.4K—Yahyaoui22
MA Morocco—≈6,400 est.≈1 in 5.5K—Yahyaoui29
FR France—≈2,400 est.≈1 in 29K244Yahyaoui183
DZ Algeria—≈2,100 est.≈1 in 21KlistedYahyaoui10
ES Spain—7271 in 69K727Yahyaoui14
BE Belgium#9802321 in 51K424Yahyaoui27

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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Yahyaoui is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname53 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, Tunisia, Spain, Algeria

    Also written Yàhyaoui, Yàhyàoui, Yâhyâôûî, Yahyaoùi, Ŷặĥŷặŏuí

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Tunisia, Argentina, Morocco

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Yahyàoui

  • Swedish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Norway

    Languages: Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Ýãhyãouì

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Tunisia, Morocco, Spain

    Also written Ŷặĥŷặŏuí, Yãhyăoui

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Insaf Yahyaoui, b. 1950Mokhtar Yahyaoui, b. 1952Hssine Yahyaoui, b. 1960Yasmine Yahyaoui, b. 1965Zouhair Yahyaoui, b. 1967Insaf Yahyaoui, b. 1981Jamila Yahyaoui, b. 1983Amira Yahyaoui, b. 1984

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 20 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Yahyaoui
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—727#5,890
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—727#5,884
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—424#3,725
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991244—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008232#7,242
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981216—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971120—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196134—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195112—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19414—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19313—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19211—

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

What does the name Yahyaoui mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Arabic الْيَحْيَاوِي (al-yaḥyāwī). Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Yahyaoui have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 8.2 thousand people named Yahyaoui in Tunisia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yahyaoui.
How common is the name Yahyaoui?
In Spain, the national register counted 727 people named Yahyaoui, about 1 in 69 thousand residents.
How common is Yahyaoui compared with other names?
In Tunisia, Yahyaoui is the 425th most common surname of 37,763 surnames recorded there.

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yahyaoui” — the 425th most common surname in Tunisia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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