Aqib
given name · Latin script
Meaning: successor. Al-‘Aagib Wlall: an
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aqib is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 5.1Kas Akib
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 108K
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 Aqib itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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
- 92 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Akib in BD Bangladesh, MY Malaysia.
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)
successor. Al-‘Aagib Wlall: an
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aqib 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 | #312 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | listed | Aqib | 92 |
| BD Bangladesh | #580 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | listed | Akib | 65 |
| CN China | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Aqib | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 155K | 5 | Aqib | 43 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Akib | 13 |
| US United States | — | 270 | 1 in 1.2M | 269 | Aqib | 56 |
| GY Guyana | — | 5 | 1 in 150K | 5 | — | — |
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: NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Aqib is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
successor; one who
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
A certain
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
In Arabic, successor; an epithet of the Prophet Muhammad
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Aqib mean, and where does it come from?
- successor. Al-‘Aagib Wlall: an Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Is Aqib a male or female name?
- Aqib 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.
- In which country does Aqib have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 120 thousand people named Aqib in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aqib.
- How common is the name Aqib?
- In the United States, the national register counted 270 people named Aqib in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Aqib compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Aqib is the 312th most common given name of 77,659 given names 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/aqibThe 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, “Aqib” — the 312th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.