Wahap

Name: Wahap: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10

surname · Latin script

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

Wahap 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.

rarermore common

MYMalaysia≈1 in 2.3Kas Wahab(inferred from the name graph)
NGNigeria≈1 in 2.6Kas Wahab
PKPakistan≈1 in 4Kas Wahab

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Wahap itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

WahabLatin

ওহাবBengali

วาฮับThai

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Wahab in MY Malaysia, PK Pakistan, NG Nigeria and 4 more.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Wahap 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 Wahap is recorded, by country
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	—	1,035as Wahab	1 in 321K	1.3K	Wahab	222
GY Guyana	—	154as Wahab	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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Wahap is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Wāhāp

24 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.

Reference works 1

Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Wahap have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 82 thousand people named Wahab in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Wahap?: In the United States, the national register counted 1,035 people named Wahab in 2010, about 1 in 321 thousand residents.
How common is Wahap compared with other names?: In Nigeria, Wahap is the 212th most common surname of 346,007 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/wahap

The 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 2026-10-10 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, “Wahap” — the 212th most common surname in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)