Given name & surname
Kabir
“a spiritual leade”
Kabir is used as a given name and a surname. One Indian interpretation is “a spiritual leade.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “a spiritual leade.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Indian.
How it developed
From Arabic كَبِير (kabīr, “big, large, great”); its root is Arabic ك ب ر.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kabir through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 3,601
- 3,601 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 284 babies
- 2025
- 227
- #999 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +13%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 227 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 999 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 13.2% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (54). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,561 as a first name in 2020; 3,153 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kabir’s family of names
In German usage, Kabir has a conventional equivalent in the Hausa form KABIRU. Kabir has a related form in Kabeer. Kabir has a related form in Kabaı.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Kabir
- Kabir15th-century Indian mystic poet and saint1398–1518
- Kabir BediIndian actor (1946-)
- Kabir KhanIndian film director and screenwriterborn 1971
- Kabir SumanBengali singerborn 1949
- Kabir KhanPakistani cricketerborn 1974
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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