Wahab
surname · Latin script
Meaning: gift, grant, donation
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wahab/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wahab is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Malaysia it is the 41st most common surname.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 2.6K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 4K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 222 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈82,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, 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)
gift, grant, donation
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wahab 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #212 | ≈82,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Wahab | 64 |
| PK Pakistan | #143 | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 5 | Wahab | 85 |
| ID Indonesia | #507 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | listed | Wahab | 140 |
| MY Malaysia | #41 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Wahab | 102 |
| BD Bangladesh | #249 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Wahab | 57 |
| IQ Iraq | #218 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Wahab | 28 |
| US United States | — | 1,035 | 1 in 321K | 1.3K | Wahab | 222 |
| GY Guyana | — | 154 | 1 in 4.9K | 154 | — | 4 |
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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Wahab 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, giver
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, gift
as a nameAfrican Muslim 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)
- Jarmila Hassan Abdel Wahabb. 1917CZCzech opera singer (1917–1996)
- James H. Wahabb. 1920USAmerican mathematician (1920-2009)
- Lydia Arlini Wahabb. 1953IDIndonesian lawyer, Miss Universe Indonesia 1975, Miss International Indonesia 1974
- Icky Wahabb. 1955DEGerman badminton player
- Mufti Abdul Wahabb. 1972PKIslamic scholar
- Adetokunbo Wahabb. 1972NGNigerian politician and lawyer
- Franklin Wahabb. 1974DEGerman badminton player
- Aisha Wahabb. 1987USAmerican politician from California (born 1987)
- Qudus Wahabb. 2000NGNigerian basketball player (born 2000)
- Md Saidin WahabGBresearcher
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 54 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,218 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,237 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 709 | #30,970 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 154 | #471 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 5 | #178 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Wahab mean, and where does it come from?
- gift, grant, donation Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Wahab?
- A machine transcription gives /wahab/ (IPA) for Malay.
- In which country does Wahab have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 82 thousand people named Wahab in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wahab.
- How common is the name Wahab?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,035 people named Wahab in 2010, about 1 in 321 thousand residents.
- How common is Wahab compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Wahab is the 212th most common surname of 346,007 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Wahab?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wahabThe 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, “Wahab” — the 212th most common surname in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.