The Baghdadi surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 255 people carried this name — #75,564 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,111,100 people counted. That is up 45% from 176 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 142 people named Baghdadi live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Brussels-Capital.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 114 people named Baghdadi.
Most of them — 84 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 15 départements, most often Hauts-de-Seine.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
43 people named Baghdadi live in Switzerland.
They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
89 people named Baghdadi is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Baghdadi in American newspapers,
1918–1958.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 46 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Baghdadi,
with a public archive behind them.
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Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi 1002–1071 · writer -
Abdel Latif Boghdadi 1917–1999 · politician -
Shawqi Baghdadi 1928–2023 · poet -
Mohammed al-Baghdadi 1930–2020 · physicist -
Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Duraqi 784–860 · muhaddith
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Ahmad al-Attar 1713–1800 · poet
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 19 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Baghdadi.
- Baert 330 · U.S. census
- Baes 397 · U.S. census
- Baesa 156 · U.S. census
- Baez 31,298 · U.S. census
- Baeza 8,432 · U.S. census
- Baggio 292 · U.S. census
- Baghdassarian 235 · U.S. census
- Baglieri 230 · U.S. census
- Baglin 228 · U.S. census
- Baglione 172 · U.S. census
- Baglioni 106 · U.S. census
- Bagnasco 328 · U.S. census
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