Abir
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Arabic: fragrance, aroma, scent, perfume composed of musk, sandal-wood, and rose-water. See Ambarin 4. ic
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əbɪɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Abir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 952(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 1K
- TNTunisia≈1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 952 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
fragrance, aroma, scent, perfume composed of musk, sandal-wood, and rose-water. See Ambarin 4. ic
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Abir is read(measured from records)
Abir is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Arabic29%
fragrance, aroma, scent, perfume composed of musk, sandal-wood, and rose-water. See Ambarin 4. ic
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Turkish18%
Güzel koku, misk.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Hindi15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Abir in Hindi.
- English8.0%
An aromatic red powder that is used during the Holi festival.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Bangla7.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Abir in Bangla.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Abir counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #118 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 952 | listed | Abir | 86 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Abir | 7 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 1.6K | Abir | 10 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Abir | 14 |
| CN China | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Abir | 8 |
| US United States | — | 1,514 | 1 in 220K | 855 | Abir | 108 |
| SE Sweden | — | 586 | 1 in 17K | 586 | — | 10 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Abir is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
fragrance; scent.
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Intrépido
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In tei, a traditional plate made out of cane
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Abeer Odehb. 1961PSnot in their usual namePalestinian politician
- Princess Abir Muhaisenb. 1973PSadopted by King Hussein of Jordan and his third wife Queen Alia
- Abir Mukherjeeb. 1974GBBritish writer
- Abir Al-Sahlanib. 1976SEpolitician
- Abir Goswamib. 1976INIndian actor
- Abir Chatterjeeb. 1980INIndian film and television actor
- Abeer Nehmeb. 1980LBnot in their usual nameLebanese singer and a musicologist
- Abir Abrarb. 1985INactress
- Abeer Abdelrahmanb. 1992EGnot in their usual nameOlympic weightlifter
- Abeer Zeibak HaddadILnot in their usual nameArab-Israeli film and theater producer and director, lecturer in theater history
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 61 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TN Tunisia | INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022) | 2000 | 1.6K | #7 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 855 | #9,265 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 659 | #9,265 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 586 | #2,493 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 488 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 5 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Abir mean, and where does it come from?
- fragrance, aroma, scent, perfume composed of musk, sandal-wood, and rose-water. See Ambarin 4. ic Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Abir?
- A machine transcription gives /əbɪɹ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- In which country does Abir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 171 thousand people named Abir in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abir.
- Is Abir a male or female name?
- Abir is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Abir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,514 people named Abir in 2020, about 1 in 220 thousand residents.
- How common is Abir compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Abir is the 118th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abirThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Abir” — the 118th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.