Abdullah-afify/egyptian-names

Egyptian Names & Onomastic Intelligence Dataset

From 15.88M+ Raw National Records to an Empirical Onomastic and Linguistic Engine

This repository hosts the complete, multi-phase statistical and linguistic dataset powering egy-names, the production onomastic intelligence engine for contemporary Egyptian naming traditions.

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Dataset Pipeline Overview

Egyptian names follow an unbroken patronymic lineage chain ($Personal + Father + Grandfather + Ancestor + Family/Tribe$). This dataset provides the full transformation pipeline across all developmental phases:

[ Phase 0: 15.88M+ Raw Full Name Chains (30M+ Records) ]
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[ Phase 1: 63.5M+ Segmented Patronymic Tokens & Positions ]
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[ Phase 2: 43.3K Unique Raw Token Frequencies ]
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[ Phase 3: 23.4K+ Orthographic & Spelling Corrections ]
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[ Phase 4: 44.6K Master Annotated Canonical Names ]
(Gender + Religion + Generational Slot Probabilities + Tashkeel + Meanings + Transliterations)

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Full Data vs. Single Names Breakdown

Metric	Count	Description
Total Raw Exam Records	~15,875,535	Total individual student & citizen exam rows across 494 dataset files
Total Full Name Occurrences	~15.88 Million	Total full patronymic name chains (e.g., "محمد أحمد علي حسن الشرقاوي")
Unique Full Name Strings	1,545,970+	Distinct full 3-to-5-part name combinations
Total Single Name Occurrences	~63,500,000	Total individual name occurrences across all slots (averaging 4 names per chain)
Raw Distinct Single Tokens	43,333	Distinct raw word tokens before typo cleaning
Typo & Spelling Corrections	23,457	Mappings for misspellings and unspaced compound names (عبدالرحمن $\to$ عبد الرحمن)
Final Canonical Master Lexicon	44,626	The complete clean dictionary of unique Egyptian names

Understanding Population Records vs. Onomastic Lexicon

In an Egyptian population of ~16–30 Million records, names repeat extensively across generations:

• Highly common given names like محمد, أحمد, محمود, علي, فاطمة, مريم occur millions of times.
• Family surnames like الشرقاوي, السيد, إبراهيم occur tens of thousands of times.
• When every patronymic chain is decomposed and deduplicated, the complete onomastic vocabulary of Egypt consists of 44,626 unique canonical lemmas, capturing >99.9% of all contemporary and historical Egyptian personal and family names.

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Quick Start with Hugging Face datasets

1. Load Final Canonical Master Dataset (Default — 44,626 Names)

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load 44,626 annotated canonical names
dataset = load_dataset("Abdullah-afify/egyptian-names")
print(dataset["train"][0])

2. Load Raw Unprocessed Full Names (Phase 0 — 1.54M Sample / 15.88M Corpus)

raw_dataset = load_dataset("Abdullah-afify/egyptian-names", "phase0_raw")
print(f"Total raw names: {len(raw_dataset['train']):,}")
# Example: 'احمد باسم لينان محمد سليمان'

3. Load Segmented Patronymic Chains (Phase 1)

chains_dataset = load_dataset("Abdullah-afify/egyptian-names", "phase1_segmented")
# Inspect token-by-token genealogical position
print(chains_dataset["train"][:3])

4. Load Unique Token Frequency Analysis (Phase 2)

freq_dataset = load_dataset("Abdullah-afify/egyptian-names", "phase2_frequencies")
# Top names by frequency across the national corpus
print(freq_dataset["train"][:5])

5. Load Spelling & Typo Correction Rules (Phase 3 — 23,457 Rules)

corr_dataset = load_dataset("Abdullah-afify/egyptian-names", "phase3_corrections")
# Map misspelling to canonical form: 'احمد مصطفا' -> 'أحمد مصطفى'

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Configurations & Data Schemas

1. final_canonical (Default — 44,626 Rows)

The master 14-dimensional enriched onomastic dictionary:

Field	Type	Description	Example (محمد)
name_ar	string	Canonical Arabic surface form	محمد
name_en	string	Standard Egyptian English transliteration	Mohamed
gender	string	Empirical gender (male, female, neutral)	male
religion	string	Cultural/religious marker (muslim, christian, neutral)	muslim
role	string	Onomastic role (given, family, kunya, tribal)	given
tashkeel_standard	string	Modern Standard Arabic vowel diacritization	مُحَمَّد
tashkeel_eg	string	Egyptian Colloquial Arabic vocalization	مُحَمَّدْ
ipa_standard	string	Modern Standard Arabic IPA transcription	/muħamːad/
ipa_eg	string	Egyptian Colloquial Arabic IPA transcription	[moˈħamːæd]
meaning_ar	string	Root & etymological definition in Arabic	المحمود؛ كثير الخصال المحمودة (من الجذر ح م د)
meaning_en	string	Root & translation in English	The praised one; frequently praised
dallaa_ar	string	Authentic Egyptian pet names (pipe-separated)	ميدو|حمو|حمودة
dallaa_tashkeel	string	Vocalized Egyptian pet names with Tashkeel	مِيدُو|حَمُّو|حَمُّودَة
dallaa_en	string	Transliterated English pet names	Mido|Hamou|Hamouda
dallaa_ipa	string	Egyptian IPA transcription for pet names	[ˈmiːdu]|[ˈħæm.mu]|[ħæmˈmuːdæ]
root	string	Semitic/Coptic morphological root	ح-م-د
origin_type	string	Historical etymological stratum	arabic_classical
famous_figures_ar	string	Egyptian public figures & descriptions (Arabic)	محمد صلاح (قائد منتخب مصر)|محمد علي باشا (مؤسس مصر الحديثة)
famous_figures_en	string	Egyptian public figures & descriptions (English)	Mohamed Salah (Egyptian Football Captain)|Mohamed Ali Pasha
trend_category	string	Sociological generation trend	classic_timeless
slot1_pct ... slot8_pct	float	Generational slot distribution percentages	26.91, 31.77, 28.84, 7.19, ...
corpus_share_pct	float	Overall percentage share of all tokens in Egypt	0.179624

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Related model

The egy-names-fallback-classifier model is trained directly on this dataset’s canonical catalog, and is used as the offline ML fallback for names outside this catalog inside the egy-names library.

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Research Citations & Licensing

This dataset is released under the MIT License and is free for academic, commercial, and research use.

@dataset{afify2026egyptian_names,
  author       = {Abdullah Afify},
  title        = {Egyptian Names & Onomastic Intelligence Dataset},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/Abdullah-afify/egyptian-names}}
}