Rasul
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A prophet or messenger in Islam; Muhammad, as a special messenger of God (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 29 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/rɔs̪ul̪/(machine-generated) Bangla · model-generated · read from রসুল
Rasul is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Rasul is also written Расул in Cyrillic, রসুল in Bengali and ราซูล in Thai.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 1.4K
- TJTajikistan≈1 in 1.4K
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 Rasul 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 212 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Rasul in other scripts: Latin, Cyrillic, Bengali and 2 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Расул in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 3 more, Rasool in IN India and Rasoul in AF Afghanistan.
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.
How to pronounce Rasul
- Bangla:/rɔs̪ul̪/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A prophet or messenger in Islam; Muhammad, as a special messenger of God.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rasul 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 1.6K | Rasool | 88 |
| RU Russia | #245 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | register #130 | Расул | 149 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #314 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | listed | Расул | 31 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #265 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 958 | 24K | Расул | 46 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 41 | Расул | 39 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #242 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | listed | Расул | 13 |
| AF Afghanistan | #231 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | 1 | Rasoul | 14 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #317 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Расул | 17 |
| US United States | — | 442 | 1 in 753K | 1K | Rasul | 212 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)Rasul is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, Messenger of Allah. 8! Jyu, soo
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, messenger, messenger of Allah
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
messenger
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
In Maltese, synonym of appostlu (“apostle”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, rasul: a prophet or messenger in Islam; Muhammad, as a special messenger of God
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Amjid Rasulb. 1957KEbadminton player
- Imran Rasulb. 1974GBeconomist (University College London (UCL); Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS))
- Golam RasulTHresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-5972-5036
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)57 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 29 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rasul mean, and where does it come from?
- A prophet or messenger in Islam; Muhammad, as a special messenger of God. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Rasul?
- In Bangla /rɔs̪ul̪/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people named Rasul?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Rasul in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rasool. After it come Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Rasul?
- In the United States, the national register counted 442 people named Rasul in 2020, about 1 in 753 thousand residents.
- How common is Rasul compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Rasul is the 231st most common given name of 21,469 given names 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/rasulThe 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, “Rasul” — ranked 3824th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.