Assad
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: An Arab surname, notably borne by Syrian presidents Hafez al-Assad and Bashar al-Assad
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 37 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/əsɑd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Assad is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 4.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 40K
- USUnited States1 in 238K
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.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 260 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ass'Ad in JO Jordan.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)An Arab surname, notably borne by Syrian presidents Hafez al-Assad and Bashar al-Assad.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Assad is read
(measured from records)Assad is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English30%
An Arab surname, notably borne by Syrian presidents Hafez al-Assad and Bashar al-Assad.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic25%
the light.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- Spanish15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Assad in Spanish.
- Portuguese12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Assad in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Assad 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | #192 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Assad | 33 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Assad | 50 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Assad | 55 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 109K | 113 | — | 3 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 19K | listed | Assad | 45 |
| US United States | — | 1,400 | 1 in 238K | 1.7K | Assad | 260 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Ass'Ad | 42 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Assad | 13 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Assad | 30 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Muhammad Asadb. 1900ATnot in their usual nameAustrian-born Pakistani writer and social activist (1900–1992)
- Julio Daniel Asadb. 1953ARnot in their usual nameArgentinian association football player and association football manager
- Salah Assadb. 1958DZAlgerian footballer
- Hilal al-Assadb. 1967SYBashar Assad's cousin
- Omar Asadb. 1971ARnot in their usual nameArgentine footballer and manager
- Montel Vontavious Porterb. 1973USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler
- Clarice Assadb. 1978USAmerican musician and singer
- Yamil Asadb. 1994ARnot in their usual nameArgentine association football player
- Hafez Bashar al-Assadb. 2001SYeldest son of Bashar al-Assad (born 2001)
- Kareem al-Assadb. 2004SYSon of Bashar Assad
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)Evidence
(measured from records)61 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,706 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,334 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,152 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Assad mean, and where does it come from?
- An Arab surname, notably borne by Syrian presidents Hafez al-Assad and Bashar al-Assad. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Assad?
- A machine transcription gives /əsɑd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Assad have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.7 thousand people named Assad in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled assad.
- How common is the name Assad?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,400 people named Assad in 2010, about 1 in 238 thousand residents.
- How common is Assad compared with other names?
- In Syria, Assad is the 192nd most common surname of 190,062 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/assadThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Assad” — the 192nd most common surname in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.