Given name & surname
Wahab
“a big-hearted man”
Wahab is used as a given name and a surname. One Indian interpretation is “a big-hearted man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “a big-hearted man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Indian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1995. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Wahab through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 78
- 78 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1998
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,789 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,789 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1998. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 301 as a first name in 2020; 1,331 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.
Wahab’s family of names
Wahab may belong to the same name family as WAHHAB. This is a tentative spelling connection.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Wahab
- Wahb ibn MunabbihArab historian654–728
- Wahb ibn Abd Manafmaternal grandfather of Islamic prophet Muhammad500–600
- Wahab AdamsGhanaian footballerborn 1993
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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