Taleb
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 28 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
Taleb is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country. Taleb is also written তালেব in Bengali.
- MRMauritania≈1 in 740(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 18Kfew records
- DKDenmark1 in 25K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Taleb itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 258 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 736 (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mauritania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Taleb in other scripts: Bengali
(measured from records)Locally spelled তালেব in BD Bangladesh, Tàléb in MA Morocco and Taléb in TN Tunisia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Taleb is found
(measured from records)Taleb 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | listed | Taleb | 66 |
| BD Bangladesh | #751 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | তালেব | 51 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | listed | Tàléb | 80 |
| MR Mauritania | — | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 736 | 19K | — | 25 |
| FR France | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 478 | Taleb | 258 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Taléb | 43 |
| ES Spain | — | 639 | 1 in 78K | 639 | — | 42 |
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 page discusses common family names in Mauritania, reflecting the rich cultural heritage and diverse history of the c; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the dz-kaggle-names register; the ma-etatcivil-authorized-given-names 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)Taleb 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 Welsh, receipt, voucher
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Nassim Nicholas Talebb. 1960LBLebanese-American mathematical statistician, option trader, risk analyst and author (born 1960)
- Taleb Al Abdulmohsenb. 1974SASaudi Arabian psychiatrist and activist suspected of perpetrating the 2024 Magdeburg car attack
- Taleb Twatihab. 1992ILArab-Israeli—Sudanese association footballer of Bedouin descent
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)49 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 28 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Taleb?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Taleb in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled taleb. After it come Bangladesh, Morocco, Mauritania and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Taleb?
- In Spain, the national register counted 639 people named Taleb, about 1 in 78 thousand residents.
- How common is Taleb compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Taleb is the 751st most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/talebThe 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, “Taleb” — the 751st most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.