Athar
loc · Latin script
Meaning: spice merchant
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Athar is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 8.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- SDSudan≈1 in 18K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 108K
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)
- Sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
spice merchant
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Athar 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 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | 1 | Athar | 97 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 108K | listed | — | 2 |
| SD Sudan | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 1 | — | 4 |
| US United States | 296 | 1 in 1.1M | 331 | — | 150 |
| CA Canada | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 413K | 1 | — | 36 |
| NO Norway | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 180K | 22 | — | 5 |
| EE Estonia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 141K | 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.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; the ee-siseministeerium-registry register; the id-github-names register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Athar is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, purer, more virtuous; comp. adj. of Tahir ath, pure (see surat al-Baqarah 2:232)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, purer, more virtuous, most pious; neatly clean
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Scottish Gaelic, genitive singular of athair
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)
- Athar Ali Hashmib. 1946PKSenior Pakistani Journalist
- Athar Abbasb. 1955PKPakistani general and diplomat
- Athar Alib. 1961NONorwegian politician
- Athar Minallahb. 1961PKJudge of Supreme Court of Pakistan
- Athar Ali Tajikb. 1982NONorwegian politician
- Athar Aamir Khanb. 1992INIndian Administrative Service Officer
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)
Attested in 33 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 230 | #29,770 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 66 | #29,770 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 22 | #17,986 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 12 | #22,397 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2023 | 1 | #2,333 |
| SD Sudan | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #113 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Athar mean, and where does it come from?
- spice merchant Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- In which country does Athar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Athar in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled athar.
- How common is the name Athar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 296 people named Athar in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Athar?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/atharThe 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, “Athar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.