Benazir
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A transliteration of the Urdu female given name بینَظِیر (benazīr)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: SCB, 2020
/benaziɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Benazir is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 104K(inferred from the name graph)
- TJTajikistan≈1 in 8.5K
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 17K
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)
- Record sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tajikistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Беназир in KG Kyrgyzstan, TJ Tajikistan, UZ Uzbekistan.
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)A transliteration of the Urdu female given name بینَظِیر (benazīr).
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Benazir is read
(measured from records)Benazir is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Turkish33%
Eşsiz, tek olan.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Hindi16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Benazir in Hindi.
- English12%
A transliteration of the Urdu female given name بینَظِیر (benazīr).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
pers. name (B. BhuttO)
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish9.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Benazir in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Benazir 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 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 81K | listed | Benazir | 8 |
| AF Afghanistan | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Benazir | 8 |
| TJ Tajikistan | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | listed | Беназир | 3 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Benazir | 16 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Беназир | 5 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Беназир | 9 |
| SE Sweden | 34 | 1 in 300K | 34 | Benazir | 4 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Benazir is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, , (benazeer): matchless, unique
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
incomparable; matchless;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In Uzbek, matchless
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)- Benazir Bhuttob. 1953PK11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan (1953–2007)
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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 34 | #17,743 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 18 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 17 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 17 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 10 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Benazir mean, and where does it come from?
- A transliteration of the Urdu female given name بینَظِیر (benazīr). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Benazir?
- A machine transcription gives /benaziɾ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Benazir a male or female name?
- Benazir is a female 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 Benazir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Benazir in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benazir.
- How common is the name Benazir?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 34 people named Benazir, about 1 in 300 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Benazir?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/benazirThe 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, “Benazir”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.