Souad

given name · French · Latin script

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

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

rarermore common
  • TNTunisia1 in 1.4K◐
  • MAMorocco1 in 5K
  • ESSpain1 in 9.8K

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

≈11K ●

across 11 countries

Sources
261 ●

49K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 9.8K ◐

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 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Souad is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain—5,090△1.1K rec.1 in 9.8K5.1KSouad29
FR France#9433,84535K rec.1 in 18K3.8KSouad261
MA Morocco#5283,0642.6K rec.—listedSouad52
TN Tunisia#1312,911596 rec.—2.3KSouad22
BE Belgium—1,3811.2K rec.—5Souad31
US United States—1,3604.1K rec.1 in 245K1.4KSouad89
DZ Algeria#491841754 rec.—listedSouad27
DE Germany—719663 rec.—1Souad73
AU Australia—578546 rec.—1Souad51
SE Sweden—473△64 rec.1 in 22K473Souad9
NL Netherlands—363397 rec.1 in 48K363Souad15
SY Syria—334428 rec.——Souad6

Roughly 5.1K people in Spain bear this name (about 1 in 9.8K). 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●

  • French58K41%
  • Arabic36K25%
  • Spanish16K11%
  • English8K6%
  • Catalan5.1K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French58,05441%
Arabic35,56125%
Spanish15,97511%
English8,0306%
Catalan5,0904%

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◐

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

  • Arabic given name48K records spelled Souad18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, Syria, United States, Tunisia

    Also written Souâd, Souàd, Soùàd, Soùad, Soûad

  • Spanish given name17K records spelled Souad11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Brazil, United States, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Söùad, Sõuâd, Souâd, Ŝoûâd, Souäd

  • a separate given name2.9K records spelled Souad4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, United States, Algeria, Tunisia

    Also written Souâd, Soûad, Souàd

  • Turkish given name1.5K records spelled Souad5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Türkiye, Morocco, Algeria

    Languages: Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani

    Also written Souâd, Söűåď

  • Khmer given name566 records spelled Souad2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Morocco

    Also written Soûad

  • Russian given name388 records spelled Souad12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Russia, Türkiye, Iraq

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Suad, Суад, Süad, Śöüäd

  • Finnish given name162 records spelled Souad4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Sõuad, Souãd

  • Persian given name155 records spelled Souad5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Türkiye, Morocco, Algeria

    Also written Souàd, Soùàd, Souâd

39 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●

020040060020002005201020152020426 · 2019

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Souad in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
1999196
2000216
2001225
2002236
2003243
2004249
2005253
2006258
2007261
2008272
2009281
2010290
2011294
2012300
2013320
2014333
2015358
2016392
2017413
2018420
2019426
2020418

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●

19401950196019701980Souad al-Sabah, b. 1942Soad Hosny, b. 1943Souad Faress, b. 1948Souad Abdullah, b. 1950Souad Saber, b. 1950Suad Nasr, b. 1953Souad Amidou, b. 1959Souad Abderrahim, b. 1964Souad Massi, b. 1972

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 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Souad
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—5.1K#869
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—4.6K#475
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20243.8K#1,798
TN TunisiaINS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022)19702.3K#2
TN TunisiaINS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022)19601.9K#3
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.4K#9,912
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—473#2,885
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2019426—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2018420—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020418—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2017413—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2016392—

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 · 109 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Souad?
We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Souad (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Souad have the most bearers?
We estimate about 5.1 thousand people bear Souad in Spain, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled souad.
How common is Souad compared with other names?
In Tunisia, Souad is the 131st most common given name of 13,955 given names recorded there.
Is Souad a male or female name?
Souad is a female 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, “Souad” — the 131st most common given name in Tunisia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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