Zulfaqar
given name · Latin script
Meaning: owner of spines
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zəɫfəkɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zulfaqar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 76K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 114K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 127K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 76K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
owner of spines
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zulfaqar 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 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 114K | listed | Zulfaqar | 25 |
| AF Afghanistan | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Zulfaqar | 2 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Zulfaqar | 12 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 466K | listed | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 5.3M | 15 | Zulfaqar | 7 |
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: the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); the muslim-baby-names-2000 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)
Zulfaqar 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 Arabic, the cleaver of vertebrae.” Fagaar is pl. of faqaarah, spine.” Name of the sword of Muhammad
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, the cleaver of vertebrae; name of a sword presented to Ali by Muhammad
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim 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.
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 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA Saudi Arabia | Muslim Baby Names (Nishāt, 2000) | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Zulfaqar mean, and where does it come from?
- owner of spines Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- How do you pronounce Zulfaqar?
- A machine transcription gives /zəɫfəkɑɹ/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- Is Zulfaqar a male or female name?
- Zulfaqar 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 Zulfaqar?
- In the etymology graph, Zulfiqar and Zulfikar are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Zulfaqar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Zulfaqar in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zulfaqar.
- How common is the name Zulfaqar?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2,000 people in Pakistan have Zulfaqar as their first given name, about 1 in 114 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zulfaqarThe 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, “Zulfaqar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.