Nabih

given name · Latin script

Meaning: noble, famous, eminent, distinguished, brilliant

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

/nəbʲɪh/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Nabih is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
  • LBLebanon≈1 in 17K
  • SYSyria≈1 in 55K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,900 people, est.

Sources
119 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)

Lebanon, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

noble, famous, eminent, distinguished, brilliant. See Fatin 4h 8; Naabih ab

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nabih 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 Nabih is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈2,900 est.≈1 in 484K—Nabih2
EG Egypt≈820 est.≈1 in 128KlistedNabih78
MA Morocco≈490 est.≈1 in 73KlistedNabih36
SY Syria≈350 est.≈1 in 55K—Nabih19
LB Lebanon≈330 est.≈1 in 17K—Nabih37
US United States2281 in 1.5M216Nabih119
AE United Arab Emirates≈180 est.≈1 in 57K—Nabih35
IL Israel≈89 est.≈1 in 97K—Nabih13

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 — 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nabih is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Nabíh, Nabîh, Nabīh

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Morocco

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Nabíh

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Nabīh

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Nabih is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Arabic, famous, noble, outstanding, eminent, distinguished, brilliant

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • In Arabic, noble, famous, eminent, distinguished, brilliant

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • celebrated; illustrious;

    as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

  • Inteligente

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • Eminent,

    as a nameDictionary of Islamic 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)

190019502000Nabih Amin Faris, b. 1906Nabih Salama, b. 1908Nabih Abou El Hessan, b. 1934Nabih Berri, b. 1938Nabih Youssef, b. 2000

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)

Informalمرحباً Nabih،Hi Nabih, (English)

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 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Nabih
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • 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

Where does the name Nabih come from?
noble, famous, eminent, distinguished, brilliant. See Fatin 4h 8; Naabih ab Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
How do you pronounce Nabih?
A machine transcription gives /nəbʲɪh/ (IPA) for Arabic.
Is Nabih a male or female name?
Nabih 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.
What does the name Nabih mean?
Recorded meaning: noble, famous, eminent, distinguished, brilliant.
In which country does Nabih have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Nabih in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nabih.
How common is the name Nabih?
In the United States, the national register counted 228 people named Nabih in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.

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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, “Nabih”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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