Brahimi

surname · French · Latin script

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

Brahimi is a surname, most frequently recorded in India. In Mauritania it is the 8th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Arabic, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • MRMauritania1 in 53◐
  • XKKosovo1 in 289
  • MAMorocco1 in 341

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈19K ●

across 9 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
293 ●

253K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 4.6K ◐

Albania

Spellings & scripts●

BrahimLatin · French●118K records
БрахимиCyrillic · Macedonian●85 records
บูราฮัมThai · Thai●41 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Brahim in FR France, MA Morocco, MR Mauritania and 17 more, Braham in IN India, AU Australia and บูราฮัม in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Brahimi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—51,34026K rec.—475Braham64
MA Morocco#1844,95246K rec.——Brahim115
MR Mauritania#832,111411 rec.——Brahim29
DZ Algeria#6515,38918K rec.—listedBrahim70
FR France#6209,11087K rec.1 in 7.4K9.1KBrahim293
ES Spain—7,8587.3K rec.1 in 6.4K7.9KBrahim68
NL Netherlands—4,4251.3K rec.—581Brahim42
BE Belgium#5294,2104K rec.—391Brahim61
TN Tunisia#1502,5504.3K rec.——Brahim66
DE Germany—2,5283K rec.—listedBrahim85
RO Romania#4421,95027 rec.——Brahim8
IT Italy—1,4751.9K rec.—2Brahim50

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • French20K62%
  • Arabic2.4K8%
  • German2.4K7%
  • Spanish1.5K5%
  • English9993%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French19,83962%
Arabic2,4298%
German2,3857%
Spanish1,4605%
English9993%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Brahimi is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname1.8K records spelled Brahimi6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Argentina, United States, Algeria

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Brahîmi, Brahïmi, Bràhimi

  • Persian surname269 records spelled Brahimi3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Algeria, United States, Morocco, Romania

    Also written Bràhimî, Bràhimi

  • Polish surname138 records spelled Brahimi2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Břăhïmį

  • Hindi surname82 records spelled Brahimi3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Algeria, Italy

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Brähimi

  • Turkish surname53 records spelled Brahimi3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Brähími

33 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.

Other recorded senses●

Brahimi is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Albanian, a surname originating as a patronymic

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0200400600194019601980

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Brahimi in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1921–1991
Yearrecords
19212
193114
194124
1951119
1961400
1971403
1981434
1991515

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 8 years between 1921–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Himoud Brahimi, b. 1918Said Brahimi, b. 1931Lakhdar Brahimi, b. 1934Abd al-Hamid Ibrahimi, b. 1936Denise Brahimi, b. 1936Guillaume Brahimi, b. 1967Yacine Brahimi, b. 1990Samir Brahimi, b. 1990Bilal Brahimi, b. 2000Bilal Brahimi, b. 2000

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●

Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Brahimi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991515—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024498#2,587
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981434—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971403—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961400—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—398#9,596
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—398#9,567
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—333#2,706
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020296#71,105
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010202#91,221
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—189#9,546
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—162#9,798

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname 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 2026-09-12 data build · 37 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Brahimi?
We estimate roughly 19 thousand people bear Brahimi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Brahimi have the most bearers?
Brahimi is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled braham.
How common is Brahimi compared with other names?
In Mauritania, Brahimi is the 8th most common given name of 559 given names recorded there.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Brahimi” — the 8th most common given name in Mauritania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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