Nabia
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries
/nabja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nabia is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 90K(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 118K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 325K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 90K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Yerden çıkıp fışkıran, kaynayan, akan.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nabia 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 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Nabia | 22 |
| BR Brazil | 487 | 1 in 435K | 525 | Nabia | 46 |
| MA Morocco | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Nabia | 13 |
| US United States | 132 | 1 in 2.5M | 131 | Nabia | 83 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 325K | — | Nabia | 8 |
| GH Ghana | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 369K | — | Nabia | 3 |
| BE Belgium | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 325K | — | Nabia | 5 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)Nabia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In dag, 1. a son of a chief 2. a descendant of a chief
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In Turkish, Yerden çıkıp fışkıran, kaynayan, akan.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)- Nabia Abbottb. 1897USAmerican scholar of Islam (1897–1981)
- Nabia Asadb. 1950ILmayor in Israel
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 73 | #79,953 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Nabia?
- A machine transcription gives /nabja/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Nabia a male or female name?
- Nabia is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Spain (INE).
- In which country does Nabia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Nabia in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nabia.
- How common is the name Nabia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 487 people named Nabia in 2022, about 1 in 435 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Nabia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nabiaThe 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, “Nabia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.