Globally, قبطان (قبطان 
) is quite a rare predominantly boy's, but scarcely feminine first name. The first name قبطان is habitual in Egypt, where it is quite a rare principally male, but very infrequently feminine name, Libya, where it is quite a rare masculine name, and Iraq, where it is a rare boy's name. Not in comparison with a country's population, the name is most common in Egypt, Sudan, and Iraq. Likewise, قبطان is the last name as well as the forename.