Qurban
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kwɝbən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Qurban is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Arabic قُرْبَان (qurbān).
- PKPakistan≈1 in 9.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 2.7K
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 3.7K
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)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Arabic قُرْبَان (qurbān).
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Qurban 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 | #200 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | listed | Qurban | 57 |
| AF Afghanistan | #253 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 1 | Qurban | 7 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #635 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 145 | Qurban | 25 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Qurban | 25 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Qurban | 19 |
| SE Sweden | — | 32 | 1 in 319K | 32 | — | 7 |
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; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Qurban is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, sacrifice, sacrifice on the occasion of Eid-al-adha
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In crh, sacrifice
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Azerbaijani, victim
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Arabic, sacrifice (see surat al-Maa’idah
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gurban Abbasovb. 1944AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani actor
- Kurban Berdyevb. 1952TMnot in their usual nameRussian footballer Russian footballer and manager
- Qurban Ali Oruzganib. 1958AFAfghan politician
- Gurban Gurbanovb. 1972AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani footballer
- Kurban Zamanovb. 1972RUnot in their usual nameRussian association football player
- Kurban Omarovb. 1980RUnot in their usual nameRussian businessman
- Kurban Kurbanovb. 1985UZnot in their usual nameUzbekistani sport wrestler (born 1985)
- Kurban Shiraevb. 1999RUnot in their usual nameRussian freestyle wrestler
- Gurban AbbasliTRnot in their usual nameTurkish musician
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 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 145 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 32 | #18,347 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 27 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 26 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 22 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 18 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 10 | — |
| AF Afghanistan | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #314 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Qurban mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic قُرْبَان (qurbān). Recorded by Wiktionary and A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Qurban?
- A machine transcription gives /kwɝbən/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- Is Qurban a male or female name?
- Qurban is a male 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.
- What are other forms of the name Qurban?
- In the etymology graph, Kurban and Gurban are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Qurban have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Qurban in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled qurban.
- How common is the name Qurban?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 32 people named Qurban, about 1 in 319 thousand residents.
- How common is Qurban compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Qurban is the 200th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Qurban?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/qurbanThe 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, “Qurban” — the 200th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.