Jahangir
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Muslim name, from Persian: ‘holder of the world’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒhæŋɪɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jahangir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 45th most common given name.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 656(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 5.7K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 32K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 656 (inferred from the name graph)
≈250,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Muslim name, from Persian: ‘holder of the world’. It was the regnal name of the Mogul emperor Nur ud-Din Muhammad (1569-1627).
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jahangir 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #45 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 656 | listed | Jahangir | 107 |
| PK Pakistan | #246 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | 5 | Jahangir | 89 |
| CN China | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 388K | — | Jahangir | 9 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Jahangir | 5 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 248K | — | Jahangir | 9 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Jahangir | 20 |
| US United States | — | 610 | 1 in 545K | 606 | Jahangir | 109 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Jahangir | 9 |
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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Jahangir 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, (,.: world conqueror
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
holder of the world.
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
World
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
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)
- Jahangir Edalji Sanjanab. 1880INIndian writer (1880-1964)
- Jahangir Forouharb. 1916IRIranian actor
- Jahangir Tafazzolib. 1921IRIranian journalist and politician (1914–1990)
- Cihangir Ghaffarib. 1940IRnot in their usual nameIranian actor
- Jahangir Buttb. 1943PKPakistani field hockey player
- Jahangir Razmib. 1947IRPulitzer Prize-winning Iranian photographer
- Jahangir Mirshekarib. 1947IRIranian sound recordist
- Jahangir Kosarib. 1952IRIranian film producer
- Jahangir Almasib. 1955IRIranian actor
- Jakhongir Urozovb. 2004UZnot in their usual nameUzbekistani association 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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 606 | #17,856 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4 | #17,856 |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Jahangir come from?
- Muslim name, from Persian: ‘holder of the world’. It was the regnal name of the Mogul emperor Nur ud-Din Muhammad (1569-1627). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Jahangir?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒhæŋɪɹ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Jahangir mean?
- Recorded meaning: Muslim name, from Persian: ‘holder of the world’.
- Is Jahangir a male or female name?
- Jahangir 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.
- What are other forms of the name Jahangir?
- In the etymology graph, Cihangir and Jahongir are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Jahangir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 248 thousand people named Jahangir in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jahangir.
- How common is the name Jahangir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 610 people named Jahangir in 2020, about 1 in 545 thousand residents.
- How common is Jahangir compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Jahangir is the 45th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jahangirThe 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, “Jahangir” — the 45th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.