Asad
given name · Latin script
Meaning: lion
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əsɑːd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Asad is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 43rd most common given name.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 388(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.9K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 2.8K
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)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 211 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 388 (inferred from the name graph)
≈600,000 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)
lion
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Asad 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 | #43 | ≈600,000 est. | ≈1 in 388 | listed | Asad | 157 |
| BD Bangladesh | #297 | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | listed | Asad | 85 |
| AF Afghanistan | #397 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Asad | 18 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #222 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Asad | 93 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 34K | listed | Asad | 85 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #954 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Asad | 52 |
| OM Oman | #27 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Asad | 41 |
| US United States | — | 3,131 | 1 in 106K | 3.1K | Asad | 211 |
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: 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)
Asad 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, lion; strong
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
León
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Arabic, lion. Comp. As‘ad ai, happier. See Haidar js... Asad ibn Haashim: an ancestor of Muhammad (s).”*
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Spanish, second-person plural imperative of asar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Scottish Gaelic, second-person singular of à: from you
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Asad Rustumb. 1897LBLebanese historian
- Asad Haydarb. 1908IQIraqi religion historian
- Asad Gulzodab. 1935UZTajik writer and linguist
- Asad Chowdhuryb. 1943BDBangladeshi writer (1943–2023)
- Asad Raufb. 1956PKPakistani cricketer
- Asad Schwarzb. 1963DEGerman actor
- Asad Qaiserb. 1969PKPakistani politician (born 1969)
- Karim Ahmad Khanb. 1970GBnot in their usual nameBritish lawyer, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
- Asad Shafiqb. 1986PKPakistani cricketer
- Assad Valab. 1987PGnot in their usual namecricketer
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 80 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.1K | #5,472 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 81 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 27 | #5,472 |
Reference works 8
- 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)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Asad mean, and where does it come from?
- lion Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Asad?
- A machine transcription gives /əsɑːd/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- Is Asad a male or female name?
- Asad 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 Asad?
- In the etymology graph, Əsəd is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Asad have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 602 thousand people named Asad in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled asad.
- How common is the name Asad?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,131 people named Asad in 2020, about 1 in 106 thousand residents.
- How common is Asad compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Asad is the 43rd 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/asadThe 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, “Asad” — the 43rd most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.