Iqbâl
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Iqbâl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 4th 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.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 237(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 972
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 7.7K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- #875 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 358 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 237 (inferred from the name graph)
≈980,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Iqbal in PK Pakistan, IN India, GB United Kingdom and 4 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(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.
Sources 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)
Iqbâl 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #4 | ≈980,000 est. | ≈1 in 237 | 19 | Iqbal | 187 |
| BD Bangladesh | #65 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 972 | listed | Iqbal | 117 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 765 | — | Iqbal | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | #371 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Iqbal | 206 |
| IN India | #709 | 6,766 | 1 in 196K | 6.8K | Iqbal | 173 |
| LK Sri Lanka | — | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Iqbal | 38 |
| NO Norway | — | 2,610 | 1 in 2.1K | 2.6K | Iqbal | 55 |
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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Iqbâl 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 Iqbâl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 984 thousand people named Iqbâl in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled iqbal.
- How common is the name Iqbâl?
- In India, the national register counted 6,766 people named Iqbâl, about 1 in 196 thousand residents.
- How common is Iqbâl compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Iqbâl is the 4th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Iqbâl” — the 4th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.