Ikbal
given name · Latin script
Meaning: prosperity
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/icbal/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ikbal is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common surname.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 237as Iqbal(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 972as Iqbal
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 7.7Kas Iqbal
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 Ikbal 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)
- #875 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 358 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 237 (inferred from the name graph)
≈980,000 named Iqbal, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est., as Iqbal
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Iqbal in PK Pakistan, IN India, GB United Kingdom and 4 more.
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)
prosperity
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ikbal 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 | #4 | ≈980,000 est. | ≈1 in 237 | 19 | Iqbal | 187 |
| BD Bangladesh | #65 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 972 | listed | Iqbal | 117 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 765 | — | Iqbal | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | #371 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Iqbal | 206 |
| IN India | #709 | 6,766as Iqbal | 1 in 196K | 6.8K | Iqbal | 173 |
| LK Sri Lanka | — | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Iqbal | 38 |
| NO Norway | — | 2,610as Iqbal | 1 in 2.1K | 2.6K | Iqbal | 55 |
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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Ikbal is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Baht açıklığı. 2. Arzu, istek.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Arabic, good fortune, prosperity.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
good fortune
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Croatian, indijski pjesnik i filozof, zagovarao formiranje zasebne muslimanske države na Indijskom poluotoku i svojim idejama bio preteča Pakistanu
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Ikbal Khanum Effendib. 1876ILKhediva of Egypt
- Ikbal Ali Shahb. 1894INAuthor, diplomat, savant (1894–1969)
- Iqbal Banob. 1928INPakistani singer (1928-2009)
- Iqbal Rizab. 1934Pakistani diplomat
- Iqbal Bahub. 1944PKPakistani singer (1944–2012)
- Iqbal Zafar Jhagrab. 1947PKPakistani Senior politician
- Benjamin Zephaniahb. 1958GBnot in their usual nameBritish poet (1958–2023)
- Iqbal Thebab. 1963PKAmerican actor
- Iqbal Masihb. 1982PKPakistani enslaved child, activist against child labour and bonded labour
- Amir Khanb. 1986GBnot in their usual nameBritish boxer
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 40 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 438 | #10,165 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 333 | #1,305 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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 Ikbal mean, and where does it come from?
- prosperity Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ikbal?
- A machine transcription gives /icbal/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Ikbal a male or female name?
- Ikbal 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 Ikbal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 984 thousand people named Iqbal in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ikbal?
- In India, the national register counted 6,766 people named Iqbal, about 1 in 196 thousand residents.
- How common is Ikbal compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Ikbal is the 4th most common surname of 51,489 surnames 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/ikbalThe 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, “Ikbal” — the 4th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.