Al-Qahtani
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Al-Qahtani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Saudi Arabia than in any other country, where it is the 31st most common surname.
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 320(inferred from the name graph)
- QAQatar≈1 in 700
- KWKuwait≈1 in 3.9K
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.
- Saudi Arabia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 172 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 324 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Saudi Arabia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Alqahtani in SA Saudi Arabia, US United States, KW Kuwait and 3 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Al-Qahtani is found
(measured from records)Al-Qahtani 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA Saudi Arabia | #31 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 324 | — | Alqahtani | 172 |
| QA Qatar | #60 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 697 | — | Alqahtani | 46 |
| KW Kuwait | #112 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Alqahtani | 49 |
| YE Yemen | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Al-Qahtani | 9 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #461 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Alqahtani | 54 |
| US United States | — | 464 | 1 in 717K | 557 | Alqahtani | 130 |
| BH Bahrain | #370 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Alqahtani | 15 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Sa'id bin Ali bin Wahf Al-Qahtanib. 1952SAnot in their usual nameSaudi Arabian scholar and writer
- Ali Jaberb. 1954SAnot in their usual nameformer Imam of Masjid al-Haram (1954–2005)
- Mohammed Al-Qahtanib. 2002SAnot in their usual nameSaudi Arabian association football player (born July 2002)
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Al-Qahtani?
- Mondonomo estimates about 109 thousand people named Al-Qahtani in Saudi Arabia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alqahtani. After it come Qatar, Kuwait, Yemen and United Arab Emirates; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Al-Qahtani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 464 people named Al-Qahtani in 2010, about 1 in 717 thousand residents.
- How common is Al-Qahtani compared with other names?
- In Saudi Arabia, Al-Qahtani is the 31st most common surname of 121,290 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/al-qahtaniThe 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, “Al-Qahtani” — the 31st most common surname in Saudi Arabia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.