Halabi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from Arabic Halabi, adjectival derivative of Halab ‘Aleppo’, a city in Syria
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/halabʲi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Halabi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country.
- LBLebanon≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 4.2K
- ILIsrael≈1 in 16K
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.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Lebanon, 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)habitational name from Arabic Halabi, adjectival derivative of Halab ‘Aleppo’, a city in Syria.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Halabi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | #264 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Halabi | 34 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Halabi | 61 |
| LB Lebanon | #245 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Halabi | 56 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Halabi | 29 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #679 | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Halabi | 73 |
| US United States | — | 611 | 1 in 544K | 739 | Halabi | 179 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Halabi | 37 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)Halabi 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.
Aleppo, Syria
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
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)- Rejhana bint Amrb. 590SAnot in their usual nameMuhammad's concubine or twelfth wife (d. 631)
- Abd al-Razzaq Halabib. 1925SYSyrian muslim theologian
- Muhammad Ali al-Halabib. 1937SYSyrian politician
- Abbas Halabib. 1948LBLebanese politician
- Usama Halabib. 1959USPalestinian lawyer
- Ali Hasan al-Halabib. 1960JOJordanian scholar (1960-2020)
- Tarek William Saabb. 1962VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan politician
- Rola El-Halabib. 1985DEboxer
- Majdi Halabib. 1985ILIsraeli MIA soldier
- Amir Halabyb. 1986ILnot in their usual nameassociation football player
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 739 | #33,232 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 611 | #36,585 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 462 | #43,955 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Halabi mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from Arabic Halabi, adjectival derivative of Halab ‘Aleppo’, a city in Syria. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Halabi?
- A machine transcription gives /halabʲi/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- In which country does Halabi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.7 thousand people named Halabi in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled halabi.
- How common is the name Halabi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 611 people named Halabi in 2010, about 1 in 544 thousand residents.
- How common is Halabi compared with other names?
- In Syria, Halabi is the 264th most common surname of 190,062 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/halabiThe 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, “Halabi” — the 264th most common surname in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.