Oussama
given name · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Oussama is a given name, most frequently recorded in Morocco, where it is the 24th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and French, written in the Latin script.
- MAMorocco1 in 440◐
- TNTunisia1 in 715
- DZAlgeria1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈9.5K ●
- Sources
- 143 ●
- 1 in 9.7K ◐
across 11 countries
63K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
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 across 15 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #24 | 34,898 | 32K rec. | — | listed | Oussama | 125 |
| DZ Algeria | #62 | 14,609 | 15K rec. | — | #1 | Oussama | 83 |
| TN Tunisia | #45 | 5,569 | 4K rec. | — | — | Oussama | 83 |
| ES Spain | — | 5,136△ | 1.5K rec. | 1 in 9.7K | 5.1K | Oussama | 66 |
| RO Romania | #259 | 3,674 | 28 rec. | — | — | Oussama | 18 |
| FR France | — | 2,950△ | 17 rec. | 1 in 23K | 3K | — | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,152 | 521 rec. | — | listed | Oussama | 59 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,067 | 1K rec. | — | 1 | Oussama | 89 |
| BE Belgium | — | 826 | 826 rec. | — | 2 | Oussama | 60 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 721 | 522 rec. | 1 in 24K | 721 | Oussama | 42 |
| IT Italy | — | 639 | 739 rec. | — | 13 | Oussama | 42 |
| US United States | — | 384 | 4.2K rec. | 1 in 866K | 384 | Oussama | 143 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic63K41%
- French52K34%
- Spanish13K8%
- Catalan5.1K3%
- English4.9K3%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 62,613 | 41% |
| French | 52,127 | 34% |
| Spanish | 12,857 | 8% |
| Catalan | 5,136 | 3% |
| English | 4,940 | 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 |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 28 |
| 2000 | 29 |
| 2001 | 26 |
| 2002 | 27 |
| 2003 | 32 |
| 2004 | 32 |
| 2005 | 35 |
| 2006 | 39 |
| 2007 | 41 |
| 2008 | 45 |
| 2009 | 44 |
| 2010 | 44 |
| 2011 | 47 |
| 2012 | 48 |
| 2013 | 51 |
| 2014 | 53 |
| 2015 | 56 |
| 2016 | 68 |
| 2017 | 75 |
| 2018 | 78 |
| 2019 | 77 |
| 2020 | 80 |
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●
- Usama ibn Munqidhb. 1095SYnot in their usual nameArabic poet
- Osama bin Ladenb. 1957SAnot in their usual nameSaudi terrorist and co-founder of al-Qaeda (1957–2011)
- Osama Hawsawib. 1984SAnot in their usual nameSaudi Arabian footballer
- Oussama Melloulib. 1984TNTunisian swimmer
- Oussama Assaidib. 1988NLMoroccan association football player
- Osama Elsamnib. 1988JPnot in their usual nameJapanese association football player
- Oussama Haddadib. 1992TNTunisian association football player
- Osama Rashidb. 1992IQnot in their usual nameIraqi/Dutch footballer
- Oussama Oueslatib. 1996TNTunisian taekwondo athlete
- Oussama El Azzouzib. 2001NLMoroccan-Dutch association football player
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 48 sources across 29 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname 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 · 93 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Oussama?
- We estimate roughly 9.5 thousand people bear Oussama (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Oussama have the most bearers?
- Oussama is most frequently recorded in Morocco, where it is most often spelled oussama.
- How common is Oussama compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Oussama is the 24th most common given name of 44,905 given names recorded there.
- Is Oussama a male or female name?
- Oussama 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.
Query this name via API
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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, “Oussama” — the 24th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.