Names of Lebanon LB

The names that most distinguish Lebanon from the rest of the world are محمد, احمد and محمود; names here are written in Arabic.

Written in Arabic, French.

Population: 5.5M
Official registers: 8
Name forms recorded: 23K

BBuilt from 8 official registers, 23,314 name forms in our corpus, 6 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

fewerlarger share

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

How names work in Lebanon

2 naming traditions are in use in Lebanon, 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 Lebanon

Characteristic of Lebanon

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Lebanon 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.

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

Scripts & spelling

Names in Lebanon are written in Arabic (79%), Hebrew (11%) and Latin (10%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.

The best-attested names in Lebanon, 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

Official registers

A page containing naming statistics for Lebanon published by Etudiants du Monde.2023not a population count
studentsoftheworld.info. Counts: not recorded. given. 53 forms. 2023. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. A page containing naming statistics for Lebanon published by Etudiants du Monde.
Last verified 2026-05-11.
The article lists beautiful Lebanese names for boys published by MagicMaman.not a population count
www.magicmaman.com. Counts: not recorded. given. 20 forms. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. MagicMaman (French parenting site) editorial list of 'beautiful Lebanese names for boys'; 20-row parquet has year=0 and count=1 for all entries (Lounis, Waël, Bassem, Michel...) — Lounis is an Algerian/Kabyle name, not Lebanese. French editorial curation, not Lebanese statistical data.
Last verified 2026-05-12.
This page provides a ranking of the most common surnames in Lebanon according to Geneanet.2023not a population count
www.geneanet.org. Counts: not recorded. surname. 12 forms. 2023. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. Geneanet genealogy site surname index for Lebanon; 12-row parquet contains French/Norman Crusader-era surnames (DE RIBEMONT, DE TYR, DE TRIPOLI, DE MONTFORT CASTRES, counts 566/484/402) — genealogy records of French-descended users, not modern Lebanese surnames.
Last verified 2026-05-12.
A list of popular Lebanese baby names published by Oxybul.2023not a population count
www.oxybul.com. Counts: not recorded. given. 8 forms. 2023. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. Oxybul is a French toy brand; 5-row parquet has North African/Arabic names (Waël, Lounis, Marwa, Yara, Dina) from a French website listing 'Lebanese baby names' — not Lebanese statistical data.
Last verified 2026-05-12.
This page features a list of Lebanese names for girls and boys with cultural and linguistic significance, published by P2023not a population count
www.parents.fr. Counts: not recorded. given. 7 forms. 2023. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. French parenting site listing 'Lebanese names'; 13-row parquet (Maya, Jad, Nour, Ali, Layla); count of 2075 for Maya likely a site popularity score, 0 for all others. Not official Lebanese statistics.
Last verified 2026-05-12.
The page provides a list of Lebanese names for children published by Femme Actuelle.not a population count
www.femmeactuelle.fr. Counts: not recorded. given. 5 forms. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. Femme Actuelle (French women's magazine) editorial list of Lebanese children's names; 10-row parquet has count=1 for all entries (Nour, Saria, Elissa, Rime...) — French editorial curation, not Lebanese statistical data.
Last verified 2026-05-12.
The page presents a study on the frequency of names among Lebanese registered voters, published by Information Internati2004not a population count
www.aljazeera.net. Counts: not recorded. given. 3 forms. 2004. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. Al-Jazeera 2006 article on Information International study of Lebanese registered voters 2004; 3 male names only (محمد 80,644; أحمد 41,647; محمود 19,963). Count for أحمد conflicts with raya.com (41,647 vs 61,510) and محمود conflicts sharply (19,963 vs 58,700) — at least one article has transcription errors.
Last verified 2026-05-12.
The page presents statistical data about the popularity of names among Lebanese adults, published by Information Interna2006not a population count
www.raya.com. Counts: not recorded. given. 3 forms. 2006. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. Raya.com 2006 article on same Information International voter-registry study; 3 male names (محمد 80,644; أحمد 61,510; محمود 58,700). Count for أحمد differs sharply from aljazeera.net version (61,510 vs 41,647) and محمود differs 3× (58,700 vs 19,963) — irreconcilable, data unreliable.
Last verified 2026-05-12.

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.

Arab Naming Conventionspaper
Arabic nameencyclopaedia
How Arabic Names Work: A Guide to Ism, Nasab, Laqab, Nisba, and Kunyaweb
Iraqiweb
Naming Conventions throughout the Arab Worldweb
Understanding Arabic Naming Conventionsweb

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 one naming system in Lebanon?: No — 2 are described on this page (Arabic, French), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

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