Arshad
given name · Latin script
Meaning: most rightly guided; most reasonable
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɑːʃæd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arshad is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 32nd most common given name.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 4.8K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 16K
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
- 278 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 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(measured from records)
most rightly guided; most reasonable
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arshad 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 | #32 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 16 | Arshad | 157 |
| BD Bangladesh | #574 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | listed | Arshad | 67 |
| CN China | — | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Arshad | 12 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Arshad | 50 |
| MY Malaysia | #925 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Arshad | 76 |
| US United States | — | 1,266 | 1 in 263K | 2.4K | Arshad | 278 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Arshad | 33 |
| GY Guyana | — | 49 | 1 in 15K | 49 | — | 3 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Arshad 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.
upright; honest; obedient;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In Arabic, more rightly guided, more reasonable; comp. adj. of Rashid 1% ,, wise. See Rashid
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Arshad Ayubb. 1928MYMalaysian academician and educator (1928–2022)
- Arshad Yasinb. 1949IQSaddam's bodyguard and relative
- Arshad Mahmood Nashadb. 1970PKresearcher
- Arshad Saulehb. 1971INIndian painter
- Arshad Nadeemb. 1997PKPakistani Olympic javelin thrower
- Arshad AliNZpolitical scientist in Pakistan
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 51 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #10,499 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 49 | #545 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 40 | #10,499 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 11 | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Arshad mean, and where does it come from?
- most rightly guided; most reasonable Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Arshad?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑːʃæd/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- Is Arshad a male or female name?
- Arshad 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.
- In which country does Arshad have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 215 thousand people named Arshad in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arshad.
- How common is the name Arshad?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,266 people named Arshad in 2020, about 1 in 263 thousand residents.
- How common is Arshad compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Arshad is the 32nd most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arshadThe 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, “Arshad” — the 32nd most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.