Lotfi

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Lotfi is a given name, most frequently recorded in France. In Tunisia it is the 14th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Arabic, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • TNTunisia1 in 403◐
  • DZAlgeria1 in 5.6K
  • MAMorocco1 in 7.9K

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

≈898 ●

across 8 countries

Sources
238 ●

43K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 78K ◐

Sweden

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.

Where Lotfi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France—24,28617K rec.—1.7KLotfi238
TN Tunisia#149,8894.7K rec.—1.9KLotfi69
DZ Algeria#1294,3854.8K rec.—listedLotfi60
MA Morocco#7451,9373.4K rec.—listedLotfi66
RO Romania#6359439 rec.——Lotfi6
BE Belgium—671735 rec.—220Lotfi28
DE Germany—545910 rec.—1Lotfi58
IT Italy—473719 rec.—1Lotfi24
MY Malaysia—392682 rec.——Lotfi21
ES Spain—362777 rec.1 in 138K487Lotfi27
GB United Kingdom—331352 rec.——Lotfi39
EG Egypt—259441 rec.—listedLotfi54

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

Languages●

  • French25K48%
  • Arabic15K29%
  • English3.9K7%
  • Spanish1.3K2%
  • German9622%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French25,27648%
Arabic15,44329%
English3,9077%
Spanish1,2832%
German9622%

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◐

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

  • Spanish given name4.6K records spelled Lotfi17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Brazil, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Lótfi, Ļŏťfĩ, Ĺỏtḟĩ, Lōtfî, Lõtfî

  • a separate given name1.1K records spelled Lotfi2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, United States, Iran, Tunisia

    Also written Loṭfi

  • Danish given name442 records spelled Lotfi6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Algeria

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Lötfî

  • Italian given name301 records spelled Lotfi4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria

    Also written Ľotfi, Lòtfï, Lotfį

  • Russian surname164 records spelled Lotfi9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Лотфи, Лотфі, Lotfy

38 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.

Over time●

0204060802000200520102015202079 · 2018

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Lotfi in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199949
200049
200151
200251
200350
200452
200551
200654
200757
200858
200962
201060
201160
201266
201372
201474
201574
201675
201775
201879
201978
202077

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Lutfi al-Haffar, b. 1891Lotfi A. Zadeh, b. 1921Lotfi Mansouri, b. 1929Lotfi Dziri, b. 1946Lotfi Achour, b. 1953Lotfi Bouchnak, b. 1954Lotfi Bouchouchi, b. 1964Lotfi Abdelli, b. 1970Tony Zarouel, b. 1985

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 43 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Lotfi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
TN TunisiaINS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022)19701.9K#5
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20231.7K#2,715
TN TunisiaINS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022)19601.6K#9
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020564#41,581
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—487#8,191
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—487#8,168
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010406#51,281
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—362#5,735
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000279#66,274
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—271#3,304
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—220#8,116
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—197#37,251

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 93 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lotfi?
We estimate roughly 898 people bear Lotfi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Lotfi have the most bearers?
Lotfi is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled lotfi.
How common is Lotfi compared with other names?
In Tunisia, Lotfi is the 14th most common given name of 13,955 given names recorded there.
Is Lotfi a male or female name?
Lotfi 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

● 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, “Lotfi” — the 14th most common given name in Tunisia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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