Tunisia
loc · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tunisia is a name, most frequently recorded in Tunisia. It appears chiefly in Arabic and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: country, Africa.
- TNTunisia1 in 18◐
- QAQatar1 in 16K
- LYLibya1 in 39K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- 911K ●
- Sources
- 144 ●
in 5 countries
6.6K records
Official registry-verified
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Tunesien in DE Germany.
Meaning & origin●
country, Africa
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 10 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TN Tunisia | 263,282 | 36 rec. | — | — | Tunisia | 13 |
| EG Egypt | 386 | 18 rec. | — | — | Tunisia | 4 |
| CA Canada | 226 | 53 rec. | — | — | Tunisia | 3 |
| MA Morocco | 198 | 0 rec. | — | — | Tunisia | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 185 | 2 rec. | — | — | Tunisia | 1 |
| DZ Algeria | 137 | 2 rec. | — | — | Tunisia | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 123 | 13 rec. | — | — | Tunisia | 1 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | 88 | 0 rec. | — | — | Tunisia | 2 |
| QA Qatar | 86 | 3 rec. | — | — | Tunisia | 2 |
| US United States | 85 | 5.8K rec. | — | 523 | Tunisia | 144 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | 79 | 7 rec. | — | — | Tunisia | 3 |
| LY Libya | 57 | 3 rec. | — | — | Tunisia | 1 |
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Languages●
- Arabic264K29%
- French4.8K1%
- Italian1.9K1%
- English3451%
- Dutch1941%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 264,333 | 29% |
| French | 4,804 | 1% |
| Italian | 1,859 | 1% |
| English | 345 | 1% |
| Dutch | 194 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Tunisia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A country in North Africa. Capital: Tunis.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, Tunisia (a country in North Africa)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1943 | 8 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1965 | 6 |
| 1966 | 10 |
| 1967 | 11 |
| 1968 | 14 |
| 1969 | 12 |
| 1970 | 12 |
| 1971 | 20 |
| 1972 | 34 |
| 1973 | 32 |
| 1974 | 39 |
| 1975 | 35 |
| 1976 | 29 |
| 1977 | 28 |
| 1978 | 27 |
| 1979 | 19 |
| 1980 | 19 |
| 1981 | 23 |
| 1982 | 22 |
| 1983 | 28 |
| 1984 | 17 |
| 1985 | 14 |
| 1986 | 11 |
| 1987 | 10 |
| 1988 | 16 |
| 1989 | 15 |
| 1990 | 19 |
| 1991 | 15 |
| 1992 | 13 |
| 1993 | 10 |
| 1994 | 10 |
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1996 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 34 years between 1943–1996. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 523 | #19,898 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 46 | #36,689 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 45 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 44 | #71,575 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 39 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 35 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1972 | 34 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1973 | 32 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1983 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 27 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 41 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Tunisia?
- Our records include 911,252 bearers of Tunisia across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Tunisia have the most bearers?
- Tunisia is most frequently recorded in Tunisia, where it is most often spelled tunisia.
- What does the name Tunisia mean?
- Recorded meaning: country, Africa
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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, “Tunisia”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.