Ñawaz
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ñawaz is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Urdu نواز (nvāz).
- PKPakistan≈1 in 640(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 2Kfew records
- NONorway1 in 9.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 212 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 640 (inferred from the name graph)
≈390,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nawaz in PK Pakistan, GB United Kingdom, US United States and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Urdu نواز (nvāz).
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dictionary of Islamic Names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- Wiktionary
Where the surname Ñawaz is found
(measured from records)Ñawaz counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #12 | ≈390,000 est. | ≈1 in 640 | listed | Nawaz | 164 |
| BD Bangladesh | #527 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Nawaz | 57 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Nawaz | 3 |
| LK Sri Lanka | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Nawaz | 15 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 4.6K | Nawaz | 156 |
| US United States | — | 1,208 | 1 in 275K | 1.9K | Nawaz | 212 |
| NO Norway | — | 568 | 1 in 9.6K | 568 | Nawaz | 26 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ñawaz mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Urdu نواز (nvāz). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dictionary of Islamic Names and 2 other sources.
- Is Ñawaz a male or female name?
- Ñawaz 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ñawaz?
- Mondonomo estimates about 393 thousand people named Ñawaz in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nawaz. After it come Bangladesh, United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ñawaz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,208 people named Ñawaz in 2010, about 1 in 275 thousand residents.
- How common is Ñawaz compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Ñawaz is the 12th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ñawaz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B1awazThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ñawaz” — the 12th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.