Taalib
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Seeker, student, one who طلبs knowledge
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/təælɪb/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Taalib is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 250K(measured from records)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 2.1M
- KEKenya≈1 in 2.3M
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 250K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Seeker, student, one who طلبs knowledge.
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Muslim Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Taalib 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | 6 | Taalib | 10 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Taalib | 7 |
| KE Kenya | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | listed | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 3 | 1 in 250K | 3 | — | — |
| IN India | — | — | 10 | Taalib | 10 |
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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; the swahili-book-names-zawawi-1993 register. 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)Taalib 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.
seeker of knowledge
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of 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.
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Taalib mean, and where does it come from?
- Seeker, student, one who طلبs knowledge. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Taalib?
- A machine transcription gives /təælɪb/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Taalib a male or female name?
- Taalib 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.
- In which country does Taalib have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 114 people named Taalib in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled taalib.
- Where is Taalib most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Taalib is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 250 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Taalib?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 3 people named Taalib in 2025, about 1 in 250 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Taalib?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/taalibThe 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, “Taalib”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.