Mehboob
given name · Latin script
Meaning: beloved, cherished
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mehboob is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 5.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 27K
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)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
beloved, cherished
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mehboob 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 | #143 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | listed | Mehboob | 95 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 398K | — | Mehboob | 9 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Mehboob | 6 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Mehboob | 1 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Mehboob | 2 |
| US United States | — | 270 | 1 in 1.2M | 260 | Mehboob | 93 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 249K | — | Mehboob | 43 |
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: the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mehboob Khanb. 1906INfilm director (1906–1964)
- Mehboob Almekarb. 1920INCricket player
- Mehboob Alib. 1931INIndian politician
- Mehboob Rahib. 1939INIndian poet
- Mehboob Alamb. 1948PKPakistani actor (1948-1994)
- Mehboob Kotwalb. 1953INIndian songwriter and poet
- Mehboob Ali Kaiserb. 1958INIndian politician
- Mehboob Bawab. 1968ZASouth African actor
- Mehboob Khanb. 1969PKPakistani chef
- Mahaboob Alamb. 1981NPnot in their usual nameNepalese cricketer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 260 | #31,632 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 10 | #31,632 |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Mehboob mean, and where does it come from?
- beloved, cherished Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- Is Mehboob a male or female name?
- Mehboob is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Mehboob have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Mehboob in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mehboob.
- How common is the name Mehboob?
- In the United States, the national register counted 270 people named Mehboob in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Mehboob compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Mehboob is the 143rd most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mehboobThe 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, “Mehboob” — the 143rd most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.