# Navabi

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**Navabi** (Persian: نوابی; adjective form of [نواب](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A8) [navāb] meaning "[nabob](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nabob)", "[nawab](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nawab)" – and thus roughly translating as "of [Navab](/source/Navab)", "from a nabob [rich [Mughal ruler](/source/Mughal_ruler)]", "relating to a nabob") is a [Persian](/source/Persian_language)[1][2] surname. Notable people with the surname include:

- [Armin Navabi](/source/Armin_Navabi) (born 1983), Iranian-Canadian ex-Muslim atheist and secular activist, author and podcaster
- [Hakan Massoud Navabi](/source/Hakan_Massoud_Navabi) (born 1990), Afghan-Canadian freelance journalist, writer and entrepreneur
- [Shirin Navabi](/source/Shirin_Navabi) (born 1980), Iranian female chess player

## Fictional character

- [Samar Navabi](/source/Samar_Navabi), character from the American crime drama television series *[The Blacklist](/source/The_Blacklist_(TV_series))*

## See also

- [Navab](/source/Navab)
- [Nowjeh Deh, Tabriz](/source/Nowjeh_Deh,_Tabriz), also called Navabi, village in Tazeh Kand Rural District, Khosrowshahr District, Tabriz County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran

## References

1. ["Navabi Surname Distribution"](http://forebears.io/surnames/navabi). *forebears.io*. Retrieved 2020-04-06. Approximately 6,577 people bear this surname. Most prevalent in: Iran; Highest density in: Iran.

1. ["Statistics and meaning of name Navabi"](http://www.namespedia.com/details/navabi). *namespedia.com*. Retrieved 2020-04-06. Surname Navabi is used at least 140 times in at least 17 countries.

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