Tawwab
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tawwab is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: merciful, forgiving. Al-Tawwaab ol sill, the All-compassionate: one of the names of Allah.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.4M(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 3M
- USUnited States≈1 in 3.7M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4M (inferred from the name graph)
≈170 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
merciful, forgiving. Al-Tawwaab ol sill, the All-compassionate: one of the names of Allah. Ul, avaoll Glgill "I am the most Forgiving, the most Merciful." (surat al-Bagarah 2:160). See Ghafur , 5a
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tawwab 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 | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 7.7M | 1 | Tawwab | 7 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | listed | — | 2 |
| US United States | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | listed | Tawwab | 57 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | — | Tawwab | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 4.4M | — | Tawwab | 3 |
| AU Australia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 3M | — | Tawwab | 1 |
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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register. 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)
Tawwab is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, merciful, forgiving; one of the names of Allah
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Tawwab come from?
- merciful, forgiving. Al-Tawwaab ol sill, the All-compassionate: one of the names of Allah. Ul, avaoll Glgill "I am the most Forgiving, the most Merciful." (surat al-Bagarah 2:160). See Ghafur , 5a Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- What does the name Tawwab mean?
- Recorded meaning: merciful, forgiving. Al-Tawwaab ol sill, the All-compassionate: one of the names of Allah.
- In which country does Tawwab have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 173 people named Tawwab in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tawwab.
- How common is the name Tawwab?
- Mondonomo estimates about 170 people in India have Tawwab as their first surname, about 1 in 7.7 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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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, “Tawwab”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.