Iqbål

surname · Latin script

Iqbål is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a personal name based on Arabic 'iqbal ‘prosperity’, ‘success’. Allama Iqbal (1873-1938) was a great poet and philosopher in India.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 13K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 58K
  • NONorway1 in 2.1K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (measured from records)

6,766 people

Sources
153 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Iqbal in US United States, IN India, ES Spain.

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 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Iqbål 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.

Where Iqbål is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India6,7661 in 196K6.8KIqbal36
US United States5,7641 in 58K8.1KIqbal67
ES Spain3,9311 in 13K3.9KIqbal49
NO Norway2,6101 in 2.1K2.6K—9
DK Denmark8851 in 6.6K885——
SE Sweden6321 in 16K632—3
FI Finland1941 in 29K194—2

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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Iqbål under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Iqbål 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 Iqbål have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 6.8 thousand people named Iqbål, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled iqbal.
Where is Iqbål most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Iqbål 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 Iqbål?
In India, the national register counted 6,766 people named Iqbål, about 1 in 196 thousand residents.

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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, “Iqbål”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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