Missaoui

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/misawi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Missaoui is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tunisia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 65K(inferred from the name graph)
  • TNTunisia≈1 in 1.9K
  • MAMorocco≈1 in 17K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Tunisia (inferred from the name graph)

≈6,200 people, est.

Sources
155 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Tunisia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Missaoui counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Missaoui is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TN Tunisia#712≈6,200 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Missaoui16
MA Morocco—≈2,000 est.≈1 in 17K—Missaoui22
DZ Algeria—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 40KlistedMissaoui7
FR France—≈1,000 est.≈1 in 65K106Missaoui155
ES Spain—2651 in 189K265Missaoui5

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the dz-kaggle-names register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Missaoui is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Tunisia, Spain, United States, Morocco

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Mïssäôúî, Mìssáôūì

26 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Abdeljalil Missaoui, b. 1944Rokia Missaoui, b. 1949Abdellatif Missaoui, b. 1964Lotfi Missaoui, b. 1970Hatem Missaoui, b. 1970Fethi Missaoui, b. 1974Nabil Missaoui, b. 1979Cleo, b. 1987Bilel Missaoui, b. 1988Mohamed Missaoui, b. 1989

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Missaoui, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Missaoui
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—265#13,319
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—265#13,286
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981112—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991106—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197184—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196132—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195116—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19415—
DZ AlgeriaAlgerian names (Kaggle, MIT)———
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931——
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921——
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1911——

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Missaoui?
A machine transcription gives /misawi/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Missaoui have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 6.2 thousand people named Missaoui in Tunisia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled missaoui.
How common is the name Missaoui?
In Spain, the national register counted 265 people named Missaoui, about 1 in 189 thousand residents.
How common is Missaoui compared with other names?
In Tunisia, Missaoui is the 712th most common surname of 37,763 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Missaoui” — the 712th most common surname in Tunisia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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