Islem

given name · French · Latin script

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

Islem is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. It appears chiefly in French and Arabic, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance1 in 28K
  • YTMayotte1 in 2.7K
  • TNTunisia1 in 21K

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

≈2.5K

across 6 countries

Sources
166

5.7K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 28K

France

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 Islem is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France2,4105.2K rec.1 in 28K2.4KIslem166
DZ Algeria207205 rec.listedIslem14
TN Tunisia187160 rec.1.9KIslem15
RO Romania791 rec.Islem3
ES Spain626 rec.1 in 807K62Islem2
BR Brazil461 in 4.6M46
TR Türkiye3939 rec.Islem4
BE Belgium3429 rec.Islem7
YT Mayotte#424200 rec.10Islem1
US United States1415 rec.Islem6
PL Poland101 rec.1 in 3.8M101
SE Sweden91 in 1.1M9

Roughly 2.4K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 28K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages

  • French18K55%
  • Arabic7.7K23%
  • English3.2K10%
  • Turkish9903%
  • Spanish6382%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French18,26555%
Arabic7,65823%
English3,19810%
Turkish9903%
Spanish6382%

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

Islem is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic given name10K records spelled Islem117 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Tunisia, Algeria, Romania, Syria

    Also written Islém, Islèm, Ïslëm, Ïslêm, Îslêm

  • English given name4.4K records spelled Islem39 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Tunisia, Algeria, Romania, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Islém, Ïslëm, Işlem, Išlem, Įśľêm

  • Spanish given name1.3K records spelled Islem35 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Algeria, Mexico, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Islém, Ïslêm, Îslëm, Îslêm, Išlĕm

  • Turkish given name1.0K records spelled Islem16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Algeria, Tunisia

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Işlem, Ìşĺem, Ĩşĺĕm, Įşĺěm, Ïşlêm

  • Indonesian given name219 records spelled Islem7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Algeria, Tunisia, Romania, Türkiye

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Ïslem, Ïslém, Islém, Îslem, Ïşĺĕm

  • Russian given name189 records spelled Islem8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Tunisia, Türkiye, Algeria, Syria

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Ислем, Іслем, Îslêm

  • a separate given name116 records spelled Islem3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Tunisia, Algeria

    Also written Işlem, Islèm

  • Hindi given name110 records spelled Islem5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, Tunisia, Algeria, India

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Işlem, Islém

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.

Evidence

Attested in 22 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Islem
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20242.4K#283
TN TunisiaINS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022)20101.9K#6
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024670#2,751
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)62#23,243
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202246
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)40#70,533
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)36#42,494
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)28#20,546
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)26#21,998
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)20#63,968
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)18#19,737
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)16#20,656

Reference works 1

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 46 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Islem?
We estimate roughly 2.5 thousand people bear Islem (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Islem have the most bearers?
We estimate about 2.4 thousand people bear Islem in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled islem.
How common is Islem compared with other names?
In Mayotte, Islem is the 424th most common given name of 1,095 given names recorded there.
Is Islem a male or female name?
Islem is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
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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, “Islem” — the 424th most common given name in Mayotte. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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