Ehsan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A transliteration of the Persian male given name احسان (ehsân)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ehsan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 3.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- IRIran≈1 in 9.9K
- USUnited States1 in 216K
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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈72,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
A transliteration of the Persian male given name احسان (ehsân).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ehsan 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 | #504 | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | listed | Ehsan | 99 |
| AF Afghanistan | #406 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Ehsan | 20 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Ehsan | 61 |
| IR Iran | — | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | Ehsan | 100 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Ehsan | 45 |
| US United States | — | 1,540 | 1 in 216K | 1.4K | Ehsan | 234 |
| SE Sweden | — | 706 | 1 in 14K | 706 | Ehsan | 46 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ehsan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Ehsan (Ihsan) är ett persiskt och arabiskt namn som betyder ’barmhärtighet; godhet’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Azerbaijani, meal given in the memory of a deceased person
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)
- Ehsan Yarshaterb. 1920IRIranian historian and linguist (1920–2018)
- Ehsan Fatahianb. 1981IRIranian Kurdish activist (1981–2009)
- Ehsan Ghaem-Maghamib. 1982IRIranian chess player
- Ehsan Daxab. 1983ILIsraeli colonel
- Ehsan Hadadib. 1985IRIranian discus thrower
- Ehsan Jamib. 1985NLDutch politician
- Ehsan Lashgarib. 1985IRIranian wrestler
- Ehsan Hajsafib. 1990IRIranian footballer
- Ehsan Pahlavanb. 1993IRIranian footballer
- Ehsan Hosseinib. 1998IRassociation football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 59 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #9,157 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 706 | #2,162 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 508 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 120 | #9,157 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 32 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Ehsan mean, and where does it come from?
- A transliteration of the Persian male given name احسان (ehsân). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ehsan a male or female name?
- Ehsan 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.
- How do you pronounce Ehsan?
- A machine transcription gives /zən/ (IPA) for Persian.
- In which country does Ehsan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 72 thousand people named Ehsan in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ehsan.
- How common is the name Ehsan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,540 people named Ehsan in 2020, about 1 in 216 thousand residents.
- How common is Ehsan compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Ehsan is the 504th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ehsan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ehsanThe 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, “Ehsan” — the 504th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.