Harbi
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Turkish: A ramrod, gunstick
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Harbi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Saudi Arabia than in any other country.
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 90K
- USUnited States1 in 3.1M
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.
- Saudi Arabia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Saudi Arabia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A ramrod, gunstick.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Harbi is read(measured from records)
Harbi is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Arabic45%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Harbi in Arabic.
- Turkish15%
A ramrod, gunstick.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Harbi in French.
- English7.9%
A person who is not a Muslim and does not live under the condition of the dhimma.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Harbi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA Saudi Arabia | #162 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Harbi | 100 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 35K | listed | Harbi | 22 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Harbi | 33 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Harbi | 21 |
| IQ Iraq | — | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Harbi | 16 |
| OM Oman | #537 | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Harbi | 12 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Harbi | 28 |
| KW Kuwait | #785 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Harbi | 34 |
| US United States | — | 107 | 1 in 3.1M | 178 | Harbi | 85 |
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: 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Harbi 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.
Warrior, or, bom during a war
as a nameA Handbook of African 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mohamed Harbib. 1933FRFrench-Algerian historian
- Ahmed Harbib. 1986ILPalestine footballer (born 1986)
- Aziz Harbib. 2001TNTunisian judoka
- Mounira Harbi-RiahiTNTunisian archaeologist
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 30 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 178 | #106,589 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 107 | #152,628 |
| 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
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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
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 Harbi mean, and where does it come from?
- A ramrod, gunstick. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Harbi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Harbi in Saudi Arabia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled harbi.
- How common is the name Harbi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 107 people named Harbi in 2010, about 1 in 3.1 million residents.
- How common is Harbi compared with other names?
- In Saudi Arabia, Harbi is the 162nd most common surname of 121,290 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, “Harbi” — the 162nd most common surname in Saudi Arabia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.