Issam
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Issam is a given name, most frequently recorded in Morocco, where it is the 88th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Arabic, written in the Latin script.
- MAMorocco1 in 986◐
- TNTunisia1 in 1.2K
- DZAlgeria1 in 5.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈11K ●
- Sources
- 242 ●
- 1 in 10.0K ◐
across 10 countries
78K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
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 | #88 | 15,580 | 15K rec. | — | listed | Issam | 106 |
| FR France | #987 | 6,790 | 20K rec. | 1 in 10K | 6.8K | Issam | 242 |
| DZ Algeria | #128 | 4,395 | 5K rec. | — | listed | Issam | 54 |
| SY Syria | #909 | 4,281 | 4.4K rec. | — | — | Issam | 45 |
| TN Tunisia | #109 | 3,379 | 3.1K rec. | — | — | Issam | 57 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,058 | 1K rec. | 1 in 24K | 2.1K | Issam | 74 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,691 | 1.5K rec. | — | 1 | Issam | 98 |
| LB Lebanon | #541 | 1,384 | 1.3K rec. | — | 1 | Issam | 53 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,290 | 906 rec. | — | — | Issam | 65 |
| US United States | — | 1,215 | 15K rec. | 1 in 274K | 1.2K | Issam | 217 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 977 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Issam | 25 |
| JO Jordan | #627 | 889 | 892 rec. | — | — | Issam | 67 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French50K40%
- Arabic34K27%
- English10K8%
- Spanish6.8K5%
- Chinese3.7K3%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 50,496 | 40% |
| Arabic | 34,413 | 27% |
| English | 10,074 | 8% |
| Spanish | 6,818 | 5% |
| Chinese | 3,700 | 3% |
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 |
|---|---|
| 1975 | 7 |
| 1977 | 6 |
| 1982 | 6 |
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1989 | 6 |
| 1992 | 5 |
| 1993 | 6 |
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 1998 | 7 |
| 1999 | 8 |
| 2001 | 5 |
| 2004 | 8 |
| 2006 | 5 |
| 2009 | 10 |
| 2010 | 6 |
| 2011 | 6 |
| 2012 | 10 |
| 2014 | 8 |
| 2015 | 12 |
| 2016 | 5 |
| 2017 | 8 |
| 2018 | 8 |
| 2019 | 11 |
| 2020 | 6 |
| 2021 | 13 |
| 2022 | 9 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| 2025 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 30 years between 1975–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Issam Zahr ad-Dinb. 1961SYSyrian
- Issam Jellalib. 1981TNTunisian tennis player
- Issam Errakib. 1981MAMoroccan association football player
- Issam Jemâab. 1984TNTunisian association football player
- Issam El Adouab. 1986MAMoroccan footballer
- Issam Abdallahb. 1986LBLebanese journalist
- Issam Chebakeb. 1989MAMoroccan and French footballer
- Issam Jebalib. 1991TNTunisian association football player
- Issam Al Sabhib. 1997OMOmani footballer
- Issam Alnajjarb. 2003JOJordanian singer and composer
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 38 countries.
Reference works 5
- 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
- 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 · 190 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Issam?
- We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Issam (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Issam have the most bearers?
- Issam is most frequently recorded in Morocco, where it is most often spelled issam.
- How common is Issam compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Issam is the 88th most common given name of 44,905 given names recorded there.
- Is Issam a male or female name?
- Issam 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.
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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, “Issam” — the 88th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.