Mourad
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mourad 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. Recorded meaning: Se Murat.
- FRFrance1 in 8.2K◐
- MAMorocco1 in 9.1K
- BEBelgium1 in 11K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈14K ●
- Sources
- 295 ●
- 1 in 8.2K ◐
across 9 countries
71K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin●
Se Murat.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #652 | 8,290 | 63K rec. | 1 in 8.2K | 8.3K | Mourad | 295 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,845△ | 1.2K rec. | 1 in 13K | 3.8K | Mourad | 26 |
| MA Morocco | #817 | 1,685 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Mourad | 41 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1,422 | 1.2K rec. | — | 64 | Mourad | 37 |
| DZ Algeria | #321 | 1,420 | 1.3K rec. | — | #8 | Mourad | 32 |
| US United States | — | 883 | 1.2K rec. | 1 in 377K | 1.2K | Mourad | 86 |
| TN Tunisia | #416 | 644 | 425 rec. | — | 1.8K | Mourad | 30 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 629△ | 160 rec. | 1 in 27K | 629 | Mourad | 13 |
| RO Romania | — | 223 | 2 rec. | — | — | Mourad | 4 |
| CA Canada | — | 209 | 300 rec. | — | 6 | Mourad | 38 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 124 | 324 rec. | — | — | Mourad | 9 |
| PL Poland | — | 81△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 473K | 81 | — | 1 |
Roughly 8.3K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 8.2K). 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●
- French104K51%
- Arabic54K27%
- Spanish13K6%
- English9.5K5%
- Catalan3.8K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 104,229 | 51% |
| Arabic | 53,795 | 27% |
| Spanish | 12,997 | 6% |
| English | 9,523 | 5% |
| Catalan | 3,845 | 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 |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 70 |
| 2000 | 71 |
| 2001 | 78 |
| 2002 | 79 |
| 2003 | 83 |
| 2004 | 83 |
| 2005 | 83 |
| 2006 | 89 |
| 2007 | 91 |
| 2008 | 92 |
| 2009 | 95 |
| 2010 | 101 |
| 2011 | 105 |
| 2012 | 106 |
| 2013 | 109 |
| 2014 | 116 |
| 2015 | 124 |
| 2016 | 130 |
| 2017 | 135 |
| 2018 | 144 |
| 2019 | 146 |
| 2020 | 152 |
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●
- Murad Ib. 1326TRnot in their usual namethird Ottoman sultan (1362–1389)
- Murad IIb. 1403TRnot in their usual namesixth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1421–1444, 1446–1451)
- Murad IIIb. 1546TRnot in their usual name12th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1574–1595)
- Murad Mirza of Hindustanb. 1570INnot in their usual nameHindustani Imperial and Royal
- Murad IVb. 1612TRnot in their usual namethe 17th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1623–1640)
- Murad Bakhshb. 1624INnot in their usual nameMughal prince (1624-1661)
- Murad Beyb. 1750GEnot in their usual nameEgyptian noble (1750–1801)
- Murad Vb. 1840TRnot in their usual name33th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876)
- Jack Kevorkianb. 1928USnot in their usual nameAmerican pathologist, euthanasia activist (1928-2011)
- Murad Wilfried Hofmannb. 1931DEnot in their usual nameGerman diplomat
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 59 sources across 32 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
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 143 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Mourad?
- We estimate roughly 14 thousand people bear Mourad (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Mourad have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 8.3 thousand people bear Mourad in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled mourad.
- How common is Mourad compared with other names?
- In France, Mourad is the 652nd most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Mourad a male or female name?
- Mourad 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 Mourad mean?
- Recorded meaning: Se Murat.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mourad” — the 652nd most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.