حق
surname · Arabic script
Meaning: right
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
حق is a surname written in the Arabic script, with more bearers in Iran than in any other country.
- IRIran≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Iran (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈54,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iran, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)right
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname حق is found
(measured from records)حق 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IR Iran | #164 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | حق | 31 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | — | — | listed | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | — | — | — | listed | — | 1 |
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.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)حق is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Urdu, a right (ie. a privilege or claim by law etc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In apc, justice, rightness, fairness
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Arabic, to be true, to be confirmed
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In apc, justice, truth, rightness
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Punjabi, right, privilege
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Iram Haqb. 1976NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian actor, film director, model and singer
- Hamza Haqb. 1990SAnot in their usual namePakistani-Canadian actor
- Imam-ul-Haqb. 1995PKnot in their usual namePakistani cricketer
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
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name حق mean, and where does it come from?
- right Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name حق?
- In the etymology graph, حقيقي and حقاني are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does حق have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 54 thousand people named حق in Iran, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled حق.
- How common is the name حق?
- Mondonomo estimates about 54,000 people in Iran have حق as their first surname, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is حق compared with other names?
- In Iran, حق is the 164th most common surname of 518,314 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about حق?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D8%AD%D9%82The 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, “حق” — the 164th most common surname in Iran. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.