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Kabir

Kabir: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“great; grand”
Origin
Arabic
Say it
kuh-BEER · 2 syllables
Used for
Boys

From Arabic kabīr meaning ‘great’ or ‘large’. It is also associated with the 15th-century Indian poet-saint Kabir.

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How popular is Kabir?

202474.0 per million US babies
1880192019602000
Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Kabir in 2024245

2024 rank#937 boys

Peak year2021

Total US babies since 18803,374

Kabir is rising: use over the last five years is 3.3× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Kabir

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Amircommander, prince · Arabic
  • Muhammadpraised · Arabic
  • Zaynbeauty, grace · Arabic
  • Omarflourishing, long-lived · Arabic
  • Alihigh, exalted · Arabic
  • Cairovictorious · Arabic
  • Ibrahimfather of multitudes · Arabic
  • Amiriprincely, of a commander · Arabic

Kabir questions

What does the name Kabir mean?

Kabir means "great; grand". It comes from Arabic. From Arabic kabīr meaning ‘great’ or ‘large’. It is also associated with the 15th-century Indian poet-saint Kabir.

Is Kabir a boy or girl name?

Kabir is mainly a boy's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Kabir?

245 US babies were named Kabir in 2024. Its peak year was 2021.

How do you pronounce Kabir?

Kabir is usually pronounced kuh-BEER.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.