Imad
given name · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Imad is a given name, most frequently recorded in Morocco, where it is the 55th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: pillar, post, support.
- MAMorocco1 in 711◐
- TNTunisia1 in 840
- SYSyria1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈12K ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 245 ●
- 1 in 6.9K ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
154K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Imed in TN Tunisia, IT Italy, Имад in RU Russia, Імад in UA Ukraine and อุหมาด 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●
pillar, post, support. edo gall asl dec 543s S!glaut! "Allah is He Who raised the heavens without any
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #55 | 21,603 | 21K rec. | — | listed | Imad | 112 |
| SY Syria | #177 | 19,372 | 20K rec. | — | — | Imad | 46 |
| DZ Algeria | #73 | 10,672 | 12K rec. | — | listed | Imad | 66 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 9,365 | 9.6K rec. | — | — | Imad | 34 |
| IQ Iraq | — | 6,859 | 6.9K rec. | — | — | Imad | 44 |
| TN Tunisia | #58 | 4,741 | 4.1K rec. | — | — | Imed | 65 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,592 | 3.6K rec. | 1 in 14K | 3.6K | Imad | 63 |
| DE Germany | — | 3,253 | 3.2K rec. | — | — | Imad | 90 |
| FR France | — | 3,250 | 25K rec. | 1 in 21K | 3.3K | Imad | 245 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,298 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Imad | 77 |
| US United States | — | 2,199 | 28K rec. | 1 in 151K | 2.2K | Imad | 230 |
| LB Lebanon | #428 | 1,870 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Imad | 88 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic62K35%
- French35K19%
- English17K10%
- Spanish12K7%
- Turkish7.4K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 62,292 | 35% |
| French | 34,785 | 19% |
| English | 17,491 | 10% |
| Spanish | 12,152 | 7% |
| Turkish | 7,362 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Imad is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Imad är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’pelare, stöd’. En annan skriftform är → Emad.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Arabic, pillar; support
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Apoyo, pilar
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1977 | 7 |
| 1978 | 9 |
| 1979 | 7 |
| 1980 | 7 |
| 1982 | 10 |
| 1983 | 8 |
| 1984 | 6 |
| 1985 | 11 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1987 | 10 |
| 1988 | 8 |
| 1989 | 9 |
| 1990 | 13 |
| 1991 | 10 |
| 1992 | 11 |
| 1993 | 8 |
| 1994 | 17 |
| 1995 | 14 |
| 1996 | 13 |
| 1997 | 11 |
| 1998 | 14 |
| 1999 | 12 |
| 2000 | 14 |
| 2001 | 21 |
| 2002 | 12 |
| 2003 | 19 |
| 2004 | 16 |
| 2005 | 15 |
| 2006 | 10 |
| 2007 | 18 |
| 2008 | 19 |
| 2009 | 9 |
| 2010 | 13 |
| 2011 | 9 |
| 2012 | 17 |
| 2013 | 10 |
| 2014 | 11 |
| 2015 | 11 |
| 2016 | 12 |
| 2017 | 13 |
| 2018 | 14 |
| 2019 | 10 |
| 2020 | 10 |
| 2021 | 13 |
| 2022 | 8 |
| 2023 | 12 |
| 2024 | 16 |
| 2025 | 20 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 48 years between 1977–2025. 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. 1554IRnot in their usual nameIranian calligrapher (1554–1615)
- Emad Abdel Ghaffourb. 1960EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian politician
- Imad Khamisb. 1961SY67. Prime Minister of Syria
- Imad Mughniyahb. 1962LBLebanese militant leader (1962–2008)
- Emad Sabounib. 1964SYnot in their usual nameSyrian politician
- Imad Abu Kishekb. 1966PSPresident of Al-Quds University (1966–)
- Emad Akelb. 1971PSnot in their usual nameCommander of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades
- Imad Babab. 1974USAmerican soccer player
- Imad Farajb. 1999FRMoroccan, Algerian and French footballer
- Emad Burnatb. 2000PSnot in their usual namePalestinian 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 61 sources across 33 countries.
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 · 272 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Imad?
- We estimate roughly 12 thousand people bear Imad (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Imad have the most bearers?
- Imad is most frequently recorded in Morocco, where it is most often spelled imad.
- How common is Imad compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Imad is the 55th most common given name of 44,905 given names recorded there.
- Is Imad a male or female name?
- Imad 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 Imad mean?
- Recorded meaning: pillar, post, support.
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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, “Imad” — the 55th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.