Iqbal Khan is the youngest of four to Mr & Mrs Mohammed Amin Khan. Iqbal's father served as an officer in the Indian Civil Service. His Iqbal spent his younger years in Srinagar, Kashmir. Due to the unrest in Kashmir, his devoted parents, made the decision to send him to Pinegrove boarding school and Lawrence School Sanawar in Himachal Pradesh. He married his girlfriend Sneha Chhabra whom he had met six years earlier while shooting for a Falguni Pathak video, Mein Teri Prem Diwani. They have been together ever since. The two got married in January 2007. In 2011 Sneha gave birth to their first child.