Rabi

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Ravi in IN India, BR Brazil, GB United Kingdom and 11 more, Rao in US United States, AU Australia, PK Pakistan and 6 more, ราวี in TH Thailand and Robi in BD Bangladesh.

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 17 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◐

Rabi is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name114K records spelled Rabi4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Ethiopia, Morocco

  Also written Rabí, Rabï, Rābī

• English given name39K records spelled Rabi17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Nigeria, India, United States, Australia

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Rabî, Rabï, Ŕãbî, Ŕábî, Rabì

• Arabic given name14K records spelled Rabi4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Nigeria, India, Syria, Saudi Arabia

  Also written Rabi', Rabï, Rabî

• Indonesian given name7.4K records spelled Rabi4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Nigeria, Malaysia, Indonesia

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Rabî, Rabï

• French given name4.3K records spelled Rabi11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, India, Spain, Belgium

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Rabï, Rabî, Râbï, Rabí, Ràbî

• Portuguese given name2.9K records spelled Rabi5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, India, United States, Philippines

  Also written Ràbi, Rabí, Řăbï, Rãbï

62 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●

Rabi 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, spring, springtime

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In English, I. I., Austrian-born US physic

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In English, Islamic month

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In Arabic, spring; pleasant

  as a name·African Muslim Names

• Primavera

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 93 years between 1897–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Isidor Isaac Rabib. 1898USAmerican physicist (1898–1988)
• Yaacov Rabib. 1921ILIsraeli journalist (1921–1988)
• Lenke Rabib. 1954HUHungarian librarian, local historian (1954–2020)
• Márton Rabib. 1985HUHungarian paleontologist and geologist
• Rotem RabiILIsraeli model

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 · 326 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rabi?

We estimate roughly 74 thousand people bear Rabi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Rabi have the most bearers?

Rabi is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled ravi.

How common is Rabi compared with other names?

In India, Rabi is the 43rd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.

Is Rabi a male or female name?

Rabi is a male 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 Rabi mean?

Recorded meaning: Spring.