Iqbàl
surname · Latin script
Iqbàl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Indonesia it is the 77th most common surname. Recorded meaning: from a personal name based on Arabic 'iqbal ‘prosperity’, ‘success’. Allama Iqbal (1873-1938) was a great poet and philosopher in India.
- NONorway1 in 2.1K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 6.6K
- ESSpain1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 196 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
6,766 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Iqbal in ID Indonesia, US United States, IN India.
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)from a personal name based on Arabic 'iqbal ‘prosperity’, ‘success’. Allama Iqbal (1873-1938) was a great poet and philosopher in India.
Cited for this meaning 6
- African Muslim Names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Iqbàl 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 6,766 | 1 in 196K | 6.8K | Iqbal | 66 |
| US United States | — | 5,764 | 1 in 58K | 8.1K | Iqbal | 118 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,931 | 1 in 13K | 3.9K | — | 9 |
| NO Norway | — | 2,610 | 1 in 2.1K | 2.6K | — | 11 |
| DK Denmark | — | 885 | 1 in 6.6K | 885 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 632 | 1 in 16K | 632 | — | 4 |
| FI Finland | — | 194 | 1 in 29K | 194 | — | 2 |
| ID Indonesia | #77 | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 5.9M | — | Iqbal | 196 |
6,766 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Iqbàl mean, and where does it come from?
- from a personal name based on Arabic 'iqbal ‘prosperity’, ‘success’. Allama Iqbal (1873-1938) was a great poet and philosopher in India. Recorded by African Muslim Names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Iqbàl have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 6.8 thousand people named Iqbàl, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled iqbal.
- Where is Iqbàl most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Iqbàl is densest in Norway — about 1 in 2.1 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Iqbàl?
- In India, the national register counted 6,766 people named Iqbàl, about 1 in 196 thousand residents.
- How common is Iqbàl compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Iqbàl is the 77th most common surname of 451,395 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iqb%C3%A0lThe 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, “Iqbàl” — the 77th most common surname in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.