Rabbani
surname · Latin script
Meaning: divine, from Allah.** See Tlahi y@¥); Rabbiyy (4
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹəˈbæni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rabbani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 4.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 12K
- USUnited States1 in 450K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 217 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈37,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
divine, from Allah.** See Tlahi y@¥); Rabbiyy (4
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rabbani 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #151 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | listed | Rabbani | 82 |
| PK Pakistan | #422 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 1 | Rabbani | 73 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 43K | listed | Rabbani | 27 |
| US United States | — | 739 | 1 in 450K | 933 | Rabbani | 217 |
| IN India | — | 471 | 1 in 2.8M | 471 | Rabbani | 83 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Rabbani | 44 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Rabbani | 16 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Rabbani | 9 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election. 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)
Rabbani 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 Arabic, divine, from Allah
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Turkish, 1. Tanrı´yla ilgili, Tanrısal. 2. Kendini olanca gücüyle Tanrı’ya veren.
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)
- Burhanuddin Rabbanib. 1940AFAfghanistan politician, former President of Afghanistan (1992-2001)
- Mehdi Rabbanib. 1962IRIranian military officer (1961–2025)
- Salahuddin Rabbanib. 1971AFAfghan diplomat
- Hossein Rabbaniresearcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 933 | #27,373 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 739 | #31,360 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 471 | #9,618 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 461 | #44,027 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 290 | #1,762 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 1 | #881 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Rabbani mean, and where does it come from?
- divine, from Allah.** See Tlahi y@¥); Rabbiyy (4 Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Rabbani?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹəˈbæni/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Rabbani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 37 thousand people named Rabbani in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rabbani.
- How common is the name Rabbani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 739 people named Rabbani in 2010, about 1 in 450 thousand residents.
- How common is Rabbani compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Rabbani is the 151st most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rabbaniThe 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, “Rabbani” — the 151st most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.