Taleb
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Taleb is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 3.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 4.2K
- MRMauritania≈1 in 6.4K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 258 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Taléb in SY Syria, TN Tunisia, তালেব in BD Bangladesh and Tàléb in MA Morocco.
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.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Taleb 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #751 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | তালেব | 51 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | listed | Taleb | 66 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | listed | Tàléb | 80 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 1 | Taléb | 31 |
| FR France | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 478 | Taleb | 258 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | — | Taléb | 43 |
| ES Spain | — | 639 | 1 in 78K | 639 | — | 42 |
| MR Mauritania | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | 19K | — | 25 |
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: The page discusses common family names in Mauritania, reflecting the rich cultural heritage and diverse history of the c; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the dz-kaggle-names register; 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)
Taleb 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.
In Welsh, receipt, voucher
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)
- Abderrahmane Talebb. 1930DZalso known by his wartime pseudonym Mohand Akli (born 1930)
- Rabah Talebb. 1930DZAlgerian singer (1930-2015)
- Nassim Nicholas Talebb. 1960LBLebanese-American mathematical statistician, option trader, risk analyst and author (born 1960)
- Taleb Al Abdulmohsenb. 1974SASaudi Arabian psychiatrist and activist suspected of perpetrating the 2024 Magdeburg car attack
- Moussa Talebb. 1978AEEmirati chess grandmaster
- Moby Dickb. 1978MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan rapper
- Juanitob. 1985ARnot in their usual nameArgentine association footballer
- Taleb Rikanib. 1990IRIranian footballer
- Taleb Twatihab. 1992ILArab-Israeli—Sudanese association footballer of Bedouin descent
- Imane Talebb. 1996DZAlgerian karateka
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 49 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 639 | #6,554 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 639 | #6,551 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 478 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 440 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 340 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 340 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 144 | — |
| SY Syria | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #357 |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- In which country does Taleb have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Taleb in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled তালেব.
- How common is the name Taleb?
- In Spain, the national register counted 639 people named Taleb, about 1 in 78 thousand residents.
- How common is Taleb compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Taleb is the 751st most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Taleb?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/talebThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Taleb” — the 751st most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.