Emad
given name · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Emad is a given name, most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is the 89th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Emad är ett arabiskt namn, en variantform av → Imad.
- EGEgypt1 in 852◐
- LYLibya1 in 1.2K
- SYSyria1 in 1.9K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈13K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 262 ●
- 1 in 6.9K ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
108K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Imad in IN India, PK Pakistan.
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●
Emad är ett arabiskt namn, en variantform av → Imad.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #89 | 46,090 | 41K rec. | — | listed | Emad | 167 |
| SY Syria | #209 | 17,118 | 19K rec. | — | 1 | Emad | 50 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #169 | 6,180 | 3K rec. | — | — | Emad | 137 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,592△ | 268 rec. | 1 in 14K | 3.6K | Emad | 26 |
| US United States | — | 3,581 | 19K rec. | 1 in 93K | 3.6K | Emad | 262 |
| FR France | — | 3,250△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 21K | 3.3K | — | 2 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 2,877 | 3.2K rec. | — | — | Emad | 29 |
| JO Jordan | #277 | 2,599 | 2.8K rec. | — | — | Emad | 92 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,214 | 1.4K rec. | — | 3 | Emad | 91 |
| IQ Iraq | — | 2,056 | 2.4K rec. | — | — | Emad | 53 |
| LY Libya | #38 | 1,489 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Emad | 49 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,482 | 1.3K rec. | 1 in 6.9K | 1.5K | Emad | 37 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic98K64%
- English20K13%
- Spanish3.2K2%
- German2.9K2%
- French2.6K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 97,528 | 64% |
| English | 19,784 | 13% |
| Spanish | 3,211 | 2% |
| German | 2,861 | 2% |
| French | 2,572 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1971 | 8 |
| 1972 | 10 |
| 1974 | 6 |
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1977 | 14 |
| 1979 | 13 |
| 1980 | 9 |
| 1981 | 14 |
| 1982 | 9 |
| 1983 | 17 |
| 1984 | 11 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1986 | 9 |
| 1987 | 10 |
| 1988 | 6 |
| 1989 | 17 |
| 1990 | 10 |
| 1991 | 19 |
| 1992 | 12 |
| 1993 | 14 |
| 1994 | 18 |
| 1995 | 20 |
| 1996 | 13 |
| 1997 | 19 |
| 1998 | 18 |
| 1999 | 21 |
| 2000 | 15 |
| 2001 | 14 |
| 2002 | 15 |
| 2003 | 24 |
| 2004 | 12 |
| 2006 | 11 |
| 2007 | 18 |
| 2008 | 15 |
| 2009 | 9 |
| 2010 | 18 |
| 2011 | 23 |
| 2012 | 18 |
| 2013 | 34 |
| 2014 | 17 |
| 2015 | 18 |
| 2016 | 19 |
| 2017 | 29 |
| 2018 | 18 |
| 2019 | 19 |
| 2020 | 18 |
| 2021 | 14 |
| 2022 | 31 |
| 2023 | 36 |
| 2024 | 32 |
| 2025 | 42 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 51 years between 1971–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Mir Emad Hassanib. 1554IRIranian calligrapher (1554–1615)
- Emad Abdel Ghaffourb. 1960EGEgyptian politician
- Imad Khamisb. 1961SYnot in their usual name67. Prime Minister of Syria
- Imad Mughniyahb. 1962LBnot in their usual nameLebanese militant leader (1962–2008)
- Emad Sabounib. 1964SYSyrian politician
- Imad Abu Kishekb. 1966PSnot in their usual namePresident of Al-Quds University (1966–)
- Emad Akelb. 1971PSCommander of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades
- Imad Babab. 1974USnot in their usual nameAmerican soccer player
- Imad Farajb. 1999FRnot in their usual nameMoroccan, Algerian and French footballer
- Emad Burnatb. 2000PSPalestinian film 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●
Attested in 51 sources across 27 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 176 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Emad?
- We estimate roughly 13 thousand people bear Emad (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Emad have the most bearers?
- Emad is most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is most often spelled emad.
- How common is Emad compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Emad is the 89th most common given name of 72,792 given names recorded there.
- Is Emad a male or female name?
- Emad 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.
- What does the name Emad mean?
- Recorded meaning: Emad är ett arabiskt namn, en variantform av → Imad.
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About this data
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, “Emad” — the 89th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.