Names of Western Sahara EH

Names in Western Sahara are recorded in Arabic and Spanish, with a given name followed by an inherited family name.

Written in Arabic, Spanish.

Population
652K
Name forms recorded
11
CBuilt from 11 name forms in our corpus, 15 cited works.

No official register found for this country — the ranking below is our record corpus alone.

fewerlarger share
Where the names most characteristic of Western Sahara are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Western Sahara included.

How names work in Western Sahara

2 naming traditions are in use in Western Sahara, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Western Sahara

Every record we hold for Western Sahara — 11 name forms across historical registers, the diaspora and several decades of births. Not a census.
#NameEstimated bearersHow common
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No official register

We have not found a published name register for Western Sahara at an authority tier we would headline. The ranking above is our record corpus, and it is labelled as such. If you publish or know of a register for this country, we would like to hear about it.

Characteristic of Western Sahara

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Western Sahara holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

Sahara
Sized by how much of the difference between Western Sahara's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Scripts & spelling

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Saharagiven name●
Laayounesurname●
Villasurname●
Warehamsurname●
The best-attested names in Western Sahara, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

Is there an official list of the most common names in Western Sahara?
We have not found one at an authority tier we would publish. The ranking on this page comes from our own record corpus and is labelled as such. If a register exists, we would like to hear about it.
Is there one naming system in Western Sahara?
No — 2 are described on this page (Arabic, Amazigh Berber), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Western Sahara”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/EH (data snapshot 2026-09-12).