Ahsan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: better, superior
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əzən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ahsan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 546(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.4K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 2.5K
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
- 246 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 546 (inferred from the name graph)
≈430,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
better, superior
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ahsan 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 | #152 | ≈430,000 est. | ≈1 in 546 | listed | Ahsan | 160 |
| BD Bangladesh | #122 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | listed | Ahsan | 127 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #430 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | listed | Ahsan | 68 |
| CN China | — | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Ahsan | 11 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #222 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Ahsan | 85 |
| US United States | — | 1,653 | 1 in 201K | 2.2K | Ahsan | 246 |
| BH Bahrain | #160 | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Ahsan | 15 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the islamic-names-dictionary-2005 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)
Ahsan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, better, best
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, lovelier
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Gentle, understanding.
as a nameThe African book of names
beautiful; excellent;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Chaste,
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)
- Ahsan Qamarb. 1980PKbadminton player
- Ahsan Habib Parashb. 1980BDbadminton player
- Ahsan I. Buttb. 1983USpolitical scientist and IR scholar
- Ahsan NazirGBresearcher
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 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.6K | #8,706 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 47 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 24 | #8,706 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | Dictionary of Islamic Names (2005) | — | — | — |
| SA Saudi Arabia | Muslim Baby Names (Nishāt, 2000) | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Ahsan mean, and where does it come from?
- better, superior Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Ahsan?
- A machine transcription gives /əzən/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- Is Ahsan a male or female name?
- Ahsan 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 Ahsan?
- In the etymology graph, Alassane and Lassana are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ahsan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 427 thousand people named Ahsan in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ahsan.
- How common is the name Ahsan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,653 people named Ahsan in 2020, about 1 in 201 thousand residents.
- How common is Ahsan compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Ahsan is the 152nd most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ahsan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ahsanThe 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, “Ahsan” — the 152nd most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.