Naheed
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nəçid/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Naheed is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 9.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 297K
- BHBahrain≈1 in 28K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 210 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Naheed 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 | #230 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | 1 | Naheed | 72 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 581K | — | Naheed | 3 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Naheed | 29 |
| US United States | — | 1,121 | 1 in 297K | 1.1K | Naheed | 210 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 132K | listed | Naheed | 12 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Naheed | 36 |
| BH Bahrain | #683 | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Naheed | 13 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Naheed | 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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the wgnd-eg-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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nahid Daei Javadb. 1942IRnot in their usual nameIranian singer (1931–2017)
- Nahid Hagigatb. 1943IRnot in their usual nameIranian-American artist (born 1943)
- Naheed Abidib. 1961INIndian scholar and writer
- Naheed Akhtarb. 1966PKplayback singer
- Naheed Nenshib. 1972CACanadian politician; 36th mayor of Calgary, Alberta
- Nahid Bhadeliab. 1975USnot in their usual nameAmerican infectious diseases physician and researcher
- Naheed Faridb. 1984AFAfghan politician
- Naheed Sarabib. 1986AFformer deputy minister for policy at the Ministry of Finance, Afghanistan
- Nahid KhodakaramiIRnot in their usual namepolitician
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 29 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #11,432 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 33 | #11,432 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1985 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 5 | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
| EG Egypt | WGND 2.0 — Egypt given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- How do you pronounce Naheed?
- A machine transcription gives /nəçid/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- Is Naheed a male or female name?
- Naheed is a female 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.
- In which country does Naheed have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Naheed in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled naheed.
- How common is the name Naheed?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,121 people named Naheed in 2020, about 1 in 297 thousand residents.
- How common is Naheed compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Naheed is the 230th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Naheed?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/naheedThe 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, “Naheed” — the 230th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.