Asrar
given name · Latin script
Meaning: secrets, mysteries; pl
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Asrar is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 39K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia≈1 in 160K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 200K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sudan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)secrets, mysteries; pl. of Sirr _., secremiisee Israrihiis)) secret
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Asrar 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 157K | 81 | Asrar | 81 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 39K | listed | Asrar | 47 |
| SD Sudan | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Asrar | 4 |
| AF Afghanistan | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Asrar | 4 |
| SY Syria | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Asrar | 4 |
| US United States | 211 | 1 in 1.6M | 123 | Asrar | 104 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; 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)Asrar is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, secrets, mysteries; plural of Sirr, secret
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)- Asrar Seidb. 1994ETbadminton player
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Asrar come from?
- secrets, mysteries; pl. of Sirr _., secremiisee Israrihiis)) secret Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Is Asrar a male or female name?
- Asrar is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.
- What does the name Asrar mean?
- Recorded meaning: secrets, mysteries; pl.
- In which country does Asrar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.2 thousand people named Asrar in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled asrar.
- How common is the name Asrar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 211 people named Asrar in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Asrar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/asrarThe 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, “Asrar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.