Ayub
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Ayub (m.fl. former) är den arabiska formen av Job (Hiob), ett hebreiskt namn med betydelsen ’var är min fader?’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ejɐb/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ayub is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- KEKenya≈1 in 4.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 5.2K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 8.5K
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 Ayub 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 208 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kenya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ayyub in PK Pakistan.
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)
Ayub (m.fl. former) är den arabiska formen av Job (Hiob), ett hebreiskt namn med betydelsen ’var är min fader?’. Jobs bok ingår i Gamla testamentet.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ayub 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #569 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | listed | Ayub | 67 |
| PK Pakistan | #908 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | listed | Ayyub | 110 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Ayub | 114 |
| KE Kenya | #424 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | listed | Ayub | 53 |
| ES Spain | — | 11,576as Ayoub | 1 in 4.3K | 12K | Ayub | 19 |
| US United States | — | 1,533 | 1 in 217K | 3.7K | Ayub | 208 |
| KW Kuwait | #727 | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Ayub | 13 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Ayub is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, Muslim: 'penitent'; biblical Job
as a nameAfrican Names
In Arabic, Job; Prophet Ayyub
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, a Prophet, the biblical Job (see surat al-Nisaa’ 4:163). Muhammad Ayub Khan: President of Pakistan (1958-69)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Indonesian, Job; Ayoub (prophet)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malay, Job.
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)
- Ayub Shah Durranib. 1800AFEmir of Afghanistan Ayub Shah in 1819 to 1823
- Ayub Khan-Dinb. 1961GBBritish actor and playwright
- Ayub Khanb. 1969INIndian actor
- Ayub Daudb. 1990SOSomali association football player
- Ayub Masikab. 1992KEKenyan footballer
- Ayoub El Kaabib. 1993MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan footballer (born 1993)
- Ayoub Ghadfab. 1998ESnot in their usual nameSpanish boxer
- Ahmed Hafnaouib. 2002TNnot in their usual nameTunisian swimmer
- Ayoub Amraouib. 2004FRnot in their usual nameMoroccan and French footballer
- Ayyoub Bouaddib. 2007FRnot in their usual nameMoroccan association football player (born 2007)
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 76 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #21,853 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 966 | #25,555 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 642 | #33,528 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 149 | #20,693 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 149 | #20,594 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 are other forms of the name Ayub?
- In the etymology graph, Job is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ayub?
- A machine transcription gives /ejɐb/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Ayub a male or female name?
- Ayub 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 does the name Ayub mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ayub (m.fl. former) är den arabiska formen av Job (Hiob), ett hebreiskt namn med betydelsen ’var är min fader?’.
- In which country does Ayub have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Ayub in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ayub.
- How common is the name Ayub?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,533 people named Ayub in 2020, about 1 in 217 thousand residents.
- How common is Ayub compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Ayub is the 569th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ayubThe 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, “Ayub” — the 569th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.