Names of Qatar QA
The names that most distinguish Qatar from the rest of the world are Kumar, אסתר and Almarri; names here are written in both Hebrew and Latin.
Written in Arabic.
- Population
- 2.4M
- Name forms recorded
- 12K
No official register found for this country — the ranking below is our record corpus alone.
How names work in Qatar
2 naming traditions are in use in Qatar, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.
The most common names in Qatar
| # | Name | Estimated bearers | How common |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | דוד | — | — |
| 2 | אסתר | — | — |
| 3 | יוסף | — | — |
| 5 | רחל | — | — |
| 6 | יעקב | — | — |
| 7 | משה | — | — |
| 8 | אברהם | — | — |
| 9 | יצחק | — | — |
| 10 | שלמה | — | — |
| 11 | שמעון | — | — |
| 12 | מאיר | — | — |
| 13 | Abdulla | — | — |
| 14 | חיים | — | — |
| 15 | חנה | — | — |
| 16 | סימי | — | — |
| 17 | זוהרה | — | — |
| 18 | מרדכי | — | — |
| 19 | אליהו | — | — |
| 20 | Mohd | — | — |
| 21 | נסים | — | — |
No official register
Characteristic of Qatar
Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Qatar holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.
Scripts & spelling
Names in Qatar are written in Hebrew (50%), Latin (48%) and Arabic (2%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.
Countries whose names look alike
Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.
Registers & sources
Cited works
Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.
- Arab Naming Conventionspaper
- Arabic nameencyclopaedia
- Cultural Atlasweb
- FamilySearchgenealogy
- FamilySearchgenealogy
- How Arabic Names Work: A Guide to Ism, Nasab, Laqab, Nisba, and Kunyaweb
- Iraqiweb
- Mondonomoweb
- Naming Conventions throughout the Arab Worldweb
- Sayariweb
- Understanding Arabic Naming Conventionsweb
- Wikipediaencyclopaedia
About this data
Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.
Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.
Questions
- Is there an official list of the most common names in Qatar?
- We have not found one at an authority tier we would publish. The ranking on this page comes from our own record corpus and is labelled as such. If a register exists, we would like to hear about it.
- Is there one naming system in Qatar?
- No — 2 are described on this page (Arabic, Yemeni and Gulf Tribal), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.
Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Qatar”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/QA (data snapshot 2026-10-09).