Azhar
given name · Latin script
Meaning: more evident, most apparent, most illuminated
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əˈzɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Azhar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 75th most common given name.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 2.3K
- USUnited States1 in 231K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 241 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ajahar in SA Saudi Arabia, KW Kuwait and Ajhar in ID Indonesia.
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)
more evident, most apparent, most illuminated
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Azhar 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 | #75 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | Azhar | 129 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Ajhar | 35 |
| BD Bangladesh | #989 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | listed | Azhar | 49 |
| MY Malaysia | #497 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 3.8K | Azhar | 71 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Ajahar | 5 |
| US United States | — | 1,439 | 1 in 231K | 1.1K | Azhar | 241 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Ajahar | 2 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity). 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)
Azhar 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, more glittering, blooming, shining, bright
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, plural of Zahrah; flower, blossom
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
El más brillante, luminoso
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Blossoming,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
In Arabic, shining, bright, brilliant, luminous, radiant. AI-
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)
- Azhar Zhurtybaikyzyb. 1865KZKazakh poet (c.1865-?)
- Azhar Ibrahimb. 1946MYMalaysian politician
- Azhar Baeshovab. 1951KZKazakhstani chemist (1951- )
- Azhar Azizan Harunb. 1962MY10th and current Speaker of Dewan Rakyat Malaysia
- Azhar Mahmoodb. 1975NZPakistani cricket coach and former cricketer
- Azhar Qayyum Nahrab. 1977PKpolitician in Pakistan
- Azhar Sheikhb. 1985INIndian cricketer
- Azhar al-Dulaimib. 2000IQFighter in Mahdi army
- Az'har TabriziIRnot in their usual nameIranian calligrapher
- Azhar AbbasPKPakistani three-star general
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 62 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 905 | #9,590 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 534 | #9,590 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 27 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 10 | — |
| MY Malaysia | data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity) | 1970 | — | — |
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)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Azhar mean, and where does it come from?
- more evident, most apparent, most illuminated Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Azhar?
- A machine transcription gives /əˈzɑɹ/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- Is Azhar a male or female name?
- Azhar 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 Azhar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 179 thousand people named Azhar in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled azhar.
- How common is the name Azhar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,439 people named Azhar in 2020, about 1 in 231 thousand residents.
- How common is Azhar compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Azhar is the 75th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Azhar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/azharThe 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, “Azhar” — the 75th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.