Tayyab
surname · Latin script
Meaning: extremely pious and
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Tayyab is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 3.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 38K
- NONorway1 in 152K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈74,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, 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)extremely pious and
Cited for this meaning 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Where the surname Tayyab is found
(measured from records)Tayyab 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 | #146 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 2 | Tayyab | 106 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 38K | listed | — | 1 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Tayyab | 11 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Tayyab | 2 |
| US United States | — | 127 | 1 in 2.6M | 243 | Tayyab | 142 |
| NO Norway | — | 36 | 1 in 152K | 102 | — | 7 |
| FI Finland | — | 33 | 1 in 169K | 33 | — | 4 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 295K | — | Tayyab | 1 |
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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)36 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tayyab mean, and where does it come from?
- extremely pious and Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Tayyab?
- Mondonomo estimates about 74 thousand people named Tayyab in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tayyab. After it come Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Indonesia and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Tayyab?
- In the United States, the national register counted 127 people named Tayyab in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
- How common is Tayyab compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Tayyab is the 146th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tayyabThe 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, “Tayyab” — the 146th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.