Lqbal

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Lqbal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • 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 Lqbal 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)

≈980,000 named Iqbal, est.

#875 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
358 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 237 (inferred from the name graph)

Pakistan, est., as Iqbal

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

IqbalLatin(measured from records)
ইকবালBengali(measured from records)
อิคบาลThai(measured from records)
ଇକବାଲOdia(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lqbal 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.

Where Lqbal is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#4≈980,000 est.≈1 in 23719Iqbal187
BD Bangladesh#65≈170,000 est.≈1 in 972listedIqbal117
AE United Arab Emirates—≈13,000 est.≈1 in 765—Iqbal7
GB United Kingdom#371≈8,500 est.≈1 in 7.7K—Iqbal206
IN India#7096,766as Iqbal1 in 196K6.8KIqbal173
LK Sri Lanka—≈6,100 est.≈1 in 3.8K—Iqbal38
NO Norway—2,610as Iqbal1 in 2.1K2.6KIqbal55

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Lqbal
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PK PakistanElection Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election201819#34
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—4#27,184

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Lqbal 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 Lqbal?
In India, the national register counted 6,766 people named Iqbal, about 1 in 196 thousand residents.
How common is Lqbal compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Lqbal is the 4th most common surname of 51,489 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, “Lqbal” — the 4th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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