Kabir

At the 2020 census, 3,153 Americans bore the surname Kabir — 9,806th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 94,800.

By the numbers

People: 3,153
Rank: 9,806th
How common: 1 in 94,800
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Arabic

Borrowed from Arabic كَبِير (“big, large, great”). This surname is mostly found in Bangladesh.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Kabir described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 86.3%
White, not Hispanic 4.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Black, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 1.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Kabir

Amir Kabir (1807–1852)Prime Minister of Iran
Abdul Kabir (born 1958)acting prime minister of Afghanistan since 2023
Altamas Kabir (1948–2017)39th Chief Justice of India

People named Kabir with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Kabir

Kaba

Also a first name

Kabir has been given to 3,601 American babies as a first name since 1976, peaking in 2021. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.