๐ How Rare Are You in Morocco?
๐ฒ๐ฆ Genetic Landscape of Morocco
Morocco's genetics tell the story of North Africa's layered history โ indigenous Amazigh (Berber) foundations overlaid with Arab, Sub-Saharan African, and Mediterranean European influences. The Amazigh people, who comprise roughly 40% of Morocco's heritage, carry some of the oldest North African genetic lineages. Rif Berbers in the north show surprising rates of light features (blue/green eyes up to 15%), while southern Moroccans near the Sahara show more Sub-Saharan genetic influence.
Geography did much of the sorting. The Rif and the High Atlas kept mountain valleys semi-independent for centuries, which is why Tamazight survives as three broad varieties โ Tarifit in the north, Central Atlas Tamazight in the mountains, Tashelhit in the Souss โ each with its own vocabulary and songs. The coastal cities collected outsiders instead. Andalusi families expelled from Iberia rebuilt quarters of Fes, Tรฉtouan and Rabat; the walled mellahs of Marrakesh and Essaouira anchored Jewish trading communities until large-scale emigration in the twentieth century; and Gnawa lineages descended from people brought north across the Sahara kept a distinct music and ritual alive. Amazigh became an official language in 2011, written in the angular Tifinagh letters now printed on road signs.
๐ A Population Fixed by Decree
Morocco's population figure is not just published, it is made legally binding. The Haut-Commissariat au Plan's 2024 census, RGPH 2024, counted 36,828,330 people in the country on 1 September 2024 — 36,680,178 Moroccans and 148,152 foreigners. The Council of Government then adopted décret n° 2.24.1009 fixing that as the legal population of the Kingdom, broken down by region, province, prefecture and commune. The rise since the 2014 census was 2,980,088 people, an average of 0.85% a year, down from 1.25% in the previous decade.
That also explains why some numbers here are firmer than others. The count is a Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat — a census of population and housing. Nobody knocks on a door to record eye colour, so the figure above rests on a decree while the tables below rest on estimates. Data Sources says which is which.
๐๏ธ Eye Color
| Brown | 65% |
| Dark Brown | 15% |
| Hazel | 10% |
| Green | 5% |
| Blue | 3% |
| Gray | 2% |
๐ Hair Color
| Black | 55% |
| Dark Brown | 30% |
| Brown | 10% |
| Other | 5% |
๐ฉธ Blood Type
| O+ | 35% |
| A+ | 28% |
| B+ | 15% |
| AB+ | 5% |
| O- | 7% |
| A- | 5% |
| B- | 3% |
| AB- | 2% |
Trait frequencies on this page come from public and institutional datasets โ see Data Sources.
🧮 Calculate Your Rarity in Morocco
Pick your eye colour, hair colour and blood type. The calculator uses Morocco's own figures from the tables above, not world averages.
This is an estimate, not a measurement. It multiplies three national frequencies as if they were independent, and they are not: eye and hair colour share pigmentation genes, so a combination that tends to run together, such as blue eyes with blonde hair, is more common than the multiplication suggests, while one that rarely does, such as blue eyes with black hair, is rarer. Blood type is independent of both. The frequencies are national averages from public datasets — see Data Sources.
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๐ When a First Name Had to Be Approved
From 2002 a Moroccan first name had to pass a legal test. Law 37-99 on the civil registry, adopted 3 October 2002, required in Article 21 that a newborn's name have a caractère marocain — a Moroccan character — and barred place names and anything judged to offend public order. Disputed names went to the Haute Commission de l'état civil, which includes the Kingdom's official historiographer and ministry representatives. It refused the Amazigh name Sifaw in June 2005; a July 2006 list refused Mazilia and accepted Mira.
Interior Ministry circular D-3220, of 9 April 2010, gave the first official definition of that phrase and listed Amazigh names among the categories that satisfy it, telling registrars to guide, convince and show flexibility rather than refuse. A later civil-registry law, 36-21, drops the Moroccan-character requirement; La Vie éco reported in April 2022 that its Article 34 still bars ridiculous names, names of cities, villages or tribes, and names that harm public morals or order. A name's rarity here has a paper trail, not just a count.
๐ Three Calendars on One Holiday List
Morocco's paid holidays run on three calendars at once. The Gregorian year supplies 1 January and 1 May. The Hijri year supplies 1 Muharram, Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha and the Mawlid, which is why those land earlier in the Gregorian year each time round. Since 2023 the Amazigh year supplies one more.
On 3 May 2023 the Royal Cabinet announced that the king had decided to make the Amazigh New Year a jour férié national officiel payé, an official paid national holiday. Two draft decrees on public holidays went to the Council of Government on 23 November 2023, and the day is observed on 14 January, the 1st of Yennayer. A birthday here can therefore be read in more than one calendar, which changes what sharing a date even means — see birthday rarity.
โญ Rare Facts About Morocco
Where Morocco's numbers come from
The population is institutional: 36,828,330 at 1 September 2024, from the Haut-Commissariat au Plan's 2024 census and fixed by décret n° 2.24.1009. The name law, the 2010 circular and the Amazigh New Year holiday come from Human Rights Watch, La Vie éco and Moroccan press reports, all dated above. The eye and hair colour shares are indicative estimates, not measurements — the census records population and housing, not appearance, and we have found no Moroccan body that publishes such figures. The blood shares are estimates too. Last checked September 2026.