Ibtisam

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled อิบตีซาม in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ibtisam is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Turkish given name5.2K records spelled Ibtisam9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Syria, Türkiye, Iraq

  Languages: Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani

  Also written Ibtişam, Ibtisām, Íbțişäm, Įbtìşãm, Ïbtîsãm

• English given name3.2K records spelled Ibtisam9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, Australia, Syria

  Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

  Also written Ibtisām, Įbtisam, Ïbtísām

• Spanish given name2.2K records spelled Ibtisam4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, United States, Syria, Iraq

  Languages: Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese

  Also written Ibtisām

• Norwegian Bokmål given name556 records spelled Ibtisam6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, Sweden

  Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Swedish

  Also written Ibťïśąm

• Russian given name463 records spelled Ibtisam4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Syria, Türkiye, Iraq, Russia

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

  Also written Ибтисам

• a separate given name216 records spelled Ibtisam2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Iraq, India, Ethiopia

  Also written Ibtisām

• Finnish given name180 records spelled Ibtisam4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Ìbťîšäm, Îbtîsâm

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Ibtisam 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, smiling, smile. See Tabassum anus, smile (f.)

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In Arabic, smiling, smile. See Tabassum

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In Arabic, smiling; smile

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In German, weibl. Vom. arabischer Herkunft (arab. ibtisäm »Lächeln« zu arab. basama »lächeln«).

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• ‘Smiling’.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

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.

Over time●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Ibtisam Abdallahb. 1945IQIraqi Novelist
• Ibtisam Lutfib. 1950SAblind Saudi singer
• Ibtisam Ibrahim Teresab. 1959SYwriter
• Ibtisam Mahamidb. 1960ILIsraeli activist
• Ibtisam Barakatb. 1963PSPalestinian-American writer
• Ibtisam al-Mutawakkilb. 1970YEYemeni poet
• Ibtisam Elahi Zaheerb. 1971PKPakistani islamic scholar
• Ibtisam Mara'anab. 1975ILArab-Israeli filmmaker and politician
• Ibtissem Chachoub. 1980DZnot in their usual nameAlgerian academic
• Ibtissem MaamerTNnot in their usual nameTunisian wrestler

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 95 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ibtisam?

We estimate roughly 1.7 thousand people bear Ibtisam (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Ibtisam have the most bearers?

Ibtisam is most frequently recorded in Syria, where it is most often spelled ibtisam.

How common is Ibtisam compared with other names?

In Syria, Ibtisam is the 694th most common given name of 109,868 given names recorded there.

Is Ibtisam a male or female name?

Ibtisam is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Ibtisam mean?

Recorded meaning: smile