Chalabi
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chalabi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Aleppo, Syria.
- FRFrance≈1 in 66K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 15K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Aleppo, Syria
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chalabi 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 | #534 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Chalabi | 19 |
| IQ Iraq | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Chalabi | 13 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 66K | 137 | Chalabi | 162 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Chalabi | 21 |
| US United States | — | 182 | 1 in 1.8M | 260 | Chalabi | 119 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Chalabi | 12 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the dz-kaggle-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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Abd al-Qadir ibn Tawfiq al-Shalabib. 1883SAnot in their usual nameLebanese-Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar and artist
- Rushdi al-Chalabib. 1917IQIraqi politician
- Maha al-Khalil Chalabib. 1938LBLebanese heiress and cultural manager (born 1938)
- Issam Abdulraheem Al-Chalabib. 1942IQIraqi minister of oil
- Ahmed Chalabib. 1944IQIraqi politician (1945–2015)
- Poussy Chalabib. 1966EGEgyptian TV presenter
- Sarah Chalabib. 1989FRFrench association football player
- Mona ChalabiGBBritish data journalist
- Selma ChalabiGBfilmmaker, journalist
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)
Attested in 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 260 | #79,118 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 182 | #99,378 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 154 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 146 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 137 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 132 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 113 | #136,783 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 3 | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Chalabi mean, and where does it come from?
- Aleppo, Syria Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- In which country does Chalabi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Chalabi in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chalabi.
- How common is the name Chalabi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 182 people named Chalabi in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
- How common is Chalabi compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Chalabi is the 534th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Chalabi” — the 534th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.