Nagib

given name · Latin script

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

Nagib is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: noble; distinguished.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 290K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.6M
  • LYLibya≈1 in 37K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

730 people, 2022

Sources
77 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)

Libya, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

noble; distinguished

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nagib 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 Nagib is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—7301 in 290K822Nagib70
EG Egypt—≈600 est.≈1 in 173KlistedNagib75
YE Yemen—≈520 est.≈1 in 58K—Nagib12
KE Kenya—≈250 est.≈1 in 213K—Nagib12
US United States—2041 in 1.6M249Nagib77
LY Libya—≈180 est.≈1 in 37K—Nagib16
LB Lebanon—≈50 est.≈1 in 110K—Nagib14
XK Kosovo—≈42 est.≈1 in 47K43—1
UG Uganda#186———Nagib1

730 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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)

Nagib is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Naǧīb, Nãgïb, Naǵīb

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Naǧīb, Nàgib

  • Urdu given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Canada, Congo - Kinshasa

    Languages: Urdu, Hindi

    Also written Naǧīb

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Naǧib, Nağib, Naǧīb, Nágib

  • Croatian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina

    Also written Нагиб

  • Bangla given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, Malaysia, India

    Also written নাগিব

41 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)

Nagib 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.

  • In Serbo-Croatian, incline, inclination, slope, slant

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

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 45 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Nagib
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020249#81,829
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010133#128,249
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000108#141,788
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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

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 Nagib mean, and where does it come from?
noble; distinguished Recorded by African Muslim Names.
Is Nagib a male or female name?
Nagib 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 are other forms of the name Nagib?
In the etymology graph, Najib is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Nagib have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 730 people named Nagib, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nagib.
How common is the name Nagib?
In Brazil, the national register counted 730 people named Nagib in 2022, about 1 in 290 thousand residents.
How common is Nagib compared with other names?
In Uganda, Nagib is the 186th most common given name of 2,133 given names 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, “Nagib” — the 186th most common given name in Uganda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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