Ibtisam
given name · Latin script
Meaning: smile
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɪbtʲisəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ibtisam is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Oman it is the 61st most common given name.
- SYSyria≈1 in 6.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 390K
- OMOman≈1 in 2.4K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Oman, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
smile
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ibtisam 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 | — | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 43K | listed | Ibtisam | 32 |
| SY Syria | #748 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Ibtisam | 13 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Ibtisam | 63 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Ibtisam | 27 |
| OM Oman | #61 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Ibtisam | 32 |
| JO Jordan | #882 | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Ibtisam | 31 |
| US United States | — | 854 | 1 in 390K | 836 | Ibtisam | 99 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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)
Ibtisam is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, smiling, smile. See Tabassum anus, smile (f.)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, smiling, smile. See Tabassum
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, smiling; smile
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In German, weibl. Vom. arabischer Herkunft (arab. ibtisäm »Lächeln« zu arab. basama »lächeln«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
‘Smiling’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ibtisam Abdallahb. 1945IQIraqi Novelist
- Ibtisam Lutfib. 1950SAblind Saudi singer
- Ibtisam Ibrahim Teresab. 1959SYwriter
- Ibtisam Mahamidb. 1960ILIsraeli activist
- Ibtisam Barakatb. 1963PSPalestinian-American writer
- Ibtisam al-Mutawakkilb. 1970YEYemeni poet
- Ibtisam Elahi Zaheerb. 1971PKPakistani islamic scholar
- Ibtisam Mara'anab. 1975ILArab-Israeli filmmaker and politician
- Ibtissem Chachoub. 1980DZnot in their usual nameAlgerian academic
- Ibtissem MaamerTNnot in their usual nameTunisian wrestler
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 836 | #13,943 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 18 | #13,943 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 10 | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ibtisam mean, and where does it come from?
- smile Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Ibtisam?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪbtʲisəm/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Ibtisam a male or female name?
- Ibtisam is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ibtisam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.4 thousand people named Ibtisam in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ibtisam.
- How common is the name Ibtisam?
- In the United States, the national register counted 854 people named Ibtisam in 2020, about 1 in 390 thousand residents.
- How common is Ibtisam compared with other names?
- In Oman, Ibtisam is the 61st most common given name of 4,945 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ibtisamThe 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, “Ibtisam” — the 61st most common given name in Oman. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.