Names of Tunisia TN

INS Tunisia — most popular newborn names (top-10, with counts) records مريم as the commonest given name in Tunisia; the names that most distinguish Tunisia from the rest of the world are Youssef, Walid and Hanen.

Written in Arabic, French.

Population
12M
Official registers
2
Name forms recorded
23K
BBuilt from 2 official registers (2022), 23,369 name forms in our corpus, 15 cited works.

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

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

How names work in Tunisia

2 naming traditions are in use in Tunisia, 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 Tunisia

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 2
INS Tunisia — most popular newborn names (top-10, with counts), 2022 — 10 given names counted over residents, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1مريم2.6K—
2ريحان1.9K—
3لينا1.6K—
4ميار1.6K—
5أسيل1.6K—
6بية1.4K—
7سجود1.4K—
8جُوري1.3K—
9ياسمين1.2K—
10إلين1.2K—

Where the two lists disagree

10 of INS Tunisia — most popular newborn names (top-10, with counts)'s top 10 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

INS Tunisia — most popular newborn names (top-10, with counts) 2022Across all recordsمريم: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. مريمnot rankedريحان: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. ريحانnot rankedلينا: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. ليناnot rankedميار: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. ميارnot rankedأسيل: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. أسيلnot rankedبية: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. بيةnot rankedسجود: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. سجودnot rankedجُوري: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. جُوريnot rankedياسمين: 9 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country9. ياسمينnot rankedإلين: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. إلينnot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
INS Tunisia — most popular newborn names (top-10, with counts), 2022 on the left; every record we hold for Tunisia on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Tunisia

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

YoussefWalidHanenSidiNourMarwaMarwenLotfiOussemaImenAchrefAnisAmineAmalEssilKamelHoudaYassineZeinebHoussem-EddineMabroukaIsraaHediHoussemAmelSamiTarekBayremRimAmiraMouradYaakoubMaysenRayhaneAmen-AllahOumaimaChaimaChahdAmeniMohamed AzizMouhamedSaif-EddineYahiaSamiaAsmaMayarAman-AllahOussamaLatifaUtilisateurAdelFatmaAhlemAlaa-EddineIslemMohamed AliBenRamzi
Sized by how much of the difference between Tunisia's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Over time

FatmaMariemImenYasmineMarwa195020226,124
INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022), 1922–2022 (11 years). The line is that register's own figure for each year — not a total across registers, which would count the same people twice. The publisher labels this series “flow”.

Up to five names at a time.

Scripts & spelling

Names in Tunisia are written in Latin (96%) and Hebrew (3%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.

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The best-attested names in Tunisia, 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

  • INS Tunisia — most popular newborn names (top-10, with counts)2022headline (given)

    Institut National de la Statistique (INS). Counts: residents. given. 10 forms. 1922–2022. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    Top-10 newborn given names by sex WITH COUNTS, decennial 1950-2010 + annual 2020-2022 (INS publishes data as inline JPG tables). Names Arabic + Latin. 1922 comparative rank table (rank-only, no counts) extracted from PDF first page. 2010 MALE: rank-only — the source image duplicated the 2020 male column (data bug in original PDF). ADDITIONALLY CHECKED 2026-08-06: crawled ins.tn directly and its dataportal.ins.tn 'Banque des données' (Prognoz-based BI portal: Recherche, Cartes, Tableaux de Bord, Requête de données, Analyse de Données, API) — this portal serves census/economic indicator cubes (RGP 2024, prices, employment, trade), not name data; its API root 404s and no prénom/nom dimension is exposed anywhere in the query tree. Also checked interieur.gov.tn / the Etat Civil and CIN (Carte d'Identité Nationale Electronique) portals for a live 'recherche prénom' tool distinct from the INS PDFs; found no public name-search form — Tunisia's Ministry of Interior exposes only identity-document application/renewal services, no name-existence or frequency lookup. No live TN per-name oracle exists at either agency; both remaining routes are the static INS PDF/press-release series already catalogued above.

    Last verified 2026-07-10.

  • INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022)2022

    Institut National de la Statistique (INS). Counts: residents. given. 10 forms. 1922–2022. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    INS published 'Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires' (December 2023, 789 KB PDF) covering 2022 birth name data with top 10 names by sex and breakdown by governorate (24 regions), plus historical comparison with 1922. Top names 2022: Youssef (boys), Mariem (girls). Appears to be a one-off publication — no evidence of prior or subsequent annual editions. PDF is directly downloadable.

    Last verified 2026-05-10.

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

What is the most common given name in Tunisia?
مريم, according to INS Tunisia — most popular newborn names (top-10, with counts) (2022), with 2,613 bearers recorded among girls.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Tunisia?
Because they count different people. INS Tunisia — most popular newborn names (top-10, with counts) (2022) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is مريم. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Youssef. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Is there one naming system in Tunisia?
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 Tunisia”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/TN (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from INS Tunisia — most popular newborn names (top-10, with counts).