Sahli

surname · French · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sahli is a surname, with more bearers in France than in any other country. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance1 in 33K◐
  • ESSpain1 in 409K
  • CDCongo - Kinshasa1 in 505K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.4K ◐

across 7 countries

Sources
127 ●

7.6K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 33K ◐

France

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●

Sorted by estimated bearers.

Where Sahli is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈2.1K7.5K rec.1 in 33K312Sahli127
CD Congo - Kinshasa≈202△5 rec.1 in 505K—Sahli1
ES Spain≈1220 rec.1 in 409K515Sahli1
CH Switzerland≈1535 rec.1 in 579K1.3KSahli16
BE Belgium≈931 rec.1 in 1.3M325Sahli7
CA Canada≈59 rec.1 in 7.6M1Sahli3
US United States≈212 rec.1 in 221M784Sahli3
SE Sweden———91——
NO Norway———90——
PL Poland———10——
CZ Czechia———4——
FI Finland———24——

Roughly 2.1K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 33K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • French8.7K31%
  • English6.7K24%
  • Arabic3.6K13%
  • German3.6K13%
  • Spanish2.2K8%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French8,65031%
English6,65724%
Arabic3,63313%
German3,61513%
Spanish2,1758%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Over time●

01002003004001920194019601980354 · 1981

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Sahli in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1901–1991
Yearrecords
19012
19112
19215
19313
194110
195143
1961173
1971317
1981354
1991312

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 10 years between 1901–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000Christian Sahli, b. 1825Hermann Sahli, b. 1856Walther Sahli, b. 1860Ali Sahli, b. 1924Hamadi Sahli, b. 1928Abderrazak Sahli, b. 1941Yassine Sahli, b. 1987Manuel Sahli, b. 1988Hamza Sahli, b. 1993

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 26 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Sahli
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20241.3K#805
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020784#31,622
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010737#31,412
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000718#30,645
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—515#7,803
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—515#7,794
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981354—
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—325#5,164
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971317—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991312—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008178#9,414
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961173—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-06 data build · 38 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sahli?
We estimate roughly 2.4 thousand people bear Sahli (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Sahli have the most bearers?
We estimate about 2.1 thousand people bear Sahli in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled sahli.
Where is Sahli most common?
Sahli is densest in France, where we estimate about 1 in 33 thousand people carry it.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Sahli”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.

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