Imran
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Imran är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’lycka, välgång’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɪmɹæn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Imran is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common given name.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 331(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 557
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 4.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Imran itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 362 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 331 (inferred from the name graph)
≈700,000 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 Имран in KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and Imraan in GY Guyana.
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)
Imran är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’lycka, välgång’. En känd namnbärare är Imran Khan (f. 1952), f.d. premiärminister i Pakistan.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Imran 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 | #8 | ≈700,000 est. | ≈1 in 331 | listed | Imran | 151 |
| BD Bangladesh | #38 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 557 | listed | Imran | 134 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 8K | listed | Imran | 128 |
| AF Afghanistan | #309 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Imran | 21 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Имран | 29 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #412 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 12K | Имран | 35 |
| US United States | — | 6,017 | 1 in 55K | 6K | Imran | 362 |
| GY Guyana | — | 529 | 1 in 1.4K | 529 | Imraan | 8 |
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; Bureau of National Statistics — names tool (monthly birth registrations 2010–2026); 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)
Imran 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.
In Arabic, population; civilization; observance of etiquette
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Anfitrión
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Abu Talibb. 540SAnot in their usual nameleader of Banu Hashim, a clan of the Qurayshi tribe of Mecca (c.535-c.619)
- Amram Gaonb. 810IQnot in their usual namerabbi
- Imran Nazar Hoseinb. 1942TTIslamic scholar
- Amram Mitznab. 1945ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli politician
- Imran Khanb. 1952PK22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Imran Abbas Naqvib. 1977PKPakistani actor and model
- Imran Khanb. 1983USIndian actor
- Imran Khanb. 1984NLDutch Punjabi singer
- Mohammad Imran Khanb. 1987PKPakistani cricketer, born 1987
- Imrân Louzab. 1999FRMoroccan and French association football 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)
Attested in 94 sources across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6K | #3,453 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 529 | #170 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 237 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 57 | #3,453 |
Reference works 7
- 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
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- In which country does Imran have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 704 thousand people named Imran in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled imran.
- How common is the name Imran?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,017 people named Imran in 2020, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
- How common is Imran compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Imran is the 8th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Imran?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪmɹæn/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- What does the name Imran mean?
- Recorded meaning: Imran är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’lycka, välgång’.
- Is Imran a male or female name?
- Imran 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 Imran?
- In the etymology graph, Ümran, Umran and Imram are forms of the same name in other languages.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/imranThe 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, “Imran” — the 8th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.