Rasool
surname · Urdu · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rasool is a surname, most frequently recorded in Russia. It appears chiefly in Urdu and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: messenger; prophet.
- PKPakistan1 in 331◐
- KZKazakhstan1 in 797
- TJTajikistan1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈25K ●
- 6 ●
- Sources
- 182 ●
- 1 in 797 ◐
across 4 countries
recorded for this name
259K records
Official registry-verified
Kazakhstan
Spellings & scripts●
4 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rasul in US United States, GB United Kingdom, MY Malaysia and 7 more, Расул in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 5 more, Rasoul in IR Iran, AF Afghanistan, SY Syria and 1 more and Raşul in TM Turkmenistan.
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●
messenger; prophet
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #239 | 154,725 | 98K rec. | — | #130 | Расул | 136 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 151,817 | 3K rec. | — | 9 | Rasool | 96 |
| IN India | — | 87,588 | 56K rec. | — | 1.6K | Rasool | 82 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #215 | 23,959 | 32K rec. | 1 in 797 | 24K | Расул | 44 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #313 | 11,535 | 4.9K rec. | — | — | Расул | 18 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #317 | 7,485 | 896 rec. | — | listed | Расул | 31 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 6,393 | 3.7K rec. | — | — | Rasul | 98 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 5,236 | 10K rec. | — | — | Расул | 16 |
| IR Iran | — | 3,412 | 3.2K rec. | — | — | Rasoul | 40 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #235 | 3,026 | 178 rec. | — | listed | Расул | 14 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #337 | 2,637 | 3K rec. | — | — | Raşul | 9 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #231 | 2,616 | 1.2K rec. | — | 41 | Расул | 35 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Urdu164K52%
- 64K20%
- Hindi50K16%
- English9K3%
- Marathi8.9K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Urdu | 164,345 | 52% |
| 63,584 | 20% | |
| Hindi | 49,799 | 16% |
| English | 8,991 | 3% |
| Marathi | 8,879 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 11 |
| 2000 | 11 |
| 2001 | 12 |
| 2002 | 14 |
| 2003 | 15 |
| 2004 | 15 |
| 2005 | 16 |
| 2006 | 18 |
| 2007 | 20 |
| 2008 | 23 |
| 2009 | 25 |
| 2010 | 26 |
| 2011 | 25 |
| 2012 | 27 |
| 2013 | 29 |
| 2014 | 30 |
| 2015 | 29 |
| 2016 | 30 |
| 2017 | 34 |
| 2018 | 36 |
| 2019 | 42 |
| 2020 | 43 |
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●
- Ghulam Rasool Alampurib. 1849Punjabi poet
- S. Ichtiaque Rasoolb. 1930INIndian-American climatologist (1930–2016)
- Ebrahim Rasoolb. 1962ZApolitician and diplomat from South Africa
- Gulam Rasool Balyawib. 1969INIndian politician
- Adnan Rasoolb. 1981PKPakistani cricketer
- Ghulam Rasool QasmiPKPakistani Islamic scholar
- Zubaida RasoolINResearcher
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●
Attested in 37 sources across 19 countries.
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 97 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Rasool?
- We estimate roughly 25 thousand people bear Rasool (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Rasool have the most bearers?
- Rasool is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled расул.
- How common is Rasool compared with other names?
- In Russia, Rasool is the 239th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Rasool mean?
- Recorded meaning: messenger; prophet
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rasool” — the 239th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.