Moroccan first names

These pages present Moroccan first names, divided into girls’ and boys’ names. A name appears in a list only if there is evidence that it is given in Morocco and of what it means. For usage, the sources include a list of first names common in Morocco published by Bladi.net¹.

In a television series in Tashelhit, an Amazigh language, studied by Karim Bensoukas (Mohammed V University, Rabat), the first names come from Amazigh and Arab-Islamic stocks of names². For Tashelhit, his study names as common: the name of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and related names, names with Abd (“servant”) before one of the names of Allah سبحانه وتعالى (glorified and exalted be He), names of prophets mentioned in the Quran, and for girls the names of the wives and daughters of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ³.

The Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe (IRCAM) has published a small book with around 440 Amazigh first names, by Brahim Lasri Amazigh and Karim Aguenaou; as examples it gives Tilelli, Tufitri, Idir and Amnay⁴.

IRCAM’s Tifinagh alphabet for the Amazigh language has 33 letters, and the institute contributed to the Unicode standard for this script⁵; in Unicode, Tifinagh occupies the block U+2D30 to U+2D7F⁶. In the name lists, a spelling in Tifinagh is given only for names of Amazigh origin, following this IRCAM table⁷.