Rasoul

Spellings & scripts●

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, Rasool in PK Pakistan, IN India, ES Spain and 3 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 4 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◐

Rasoul is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Polish given name109 records spelled Rasoul2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland

  Also written Raşoul

34 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.

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●

• Syed Shah Aale Rasool Marehrawib. 1795INnot in their usual nameIslamic scholar and Sufi saint
• Muhammad Rasool Khan Hazarvib. 1871PKnot in their usual namePakistani Islamic scholar
• Rasul Bux Palejob. 1930PKnot in their usual namePakistani revolutionary (1930–2018)
• Rasul Aminb. 1939AFnot in their usual nameAfghan politician (1939-2009)
• Rasoul Najafianb. 1952IRIranian actor, director and singer
• Rasul Sadr-Amelib. 1954IRnot in their usual nameIranian film director
• Rasoul Mollagholipourb. 1955IRIranian film director (1955–2007)
• Rasoul Tavakollib. 1960IRIranian actor and screenwriter
• Rasul Jafarianb. 1964IRnot in their usual nameIranian historian
• Rasoul Khademb. 1972IROlympic 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 · 54 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rasoul?

We estimate roughly 25 thousand people bear Rasoul (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.

In which country does Rasoul have the most bearers?

Rasoul is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled расул.

How common is Rasoul compared with other names?

In Russia, Rasoul is the 239th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Rasoul a male or female name?

Rasoul 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.