Majid
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Any of the family Majidae of sea spiders or spider crabs
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Majid is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 38th most common surname.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 9.3K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 12K
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 Majid 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)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 294 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 named Majeed, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Majeed in PK Pakistan, AE United Arab Emirates, BH Bahrain and 1 more and Mojid in BD Bangladesh.
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)
from a personal name based on Arabic majid ‘glorious’, ‘noble’. Al-Majid ‘the Glorious’ is an attribute of Allah, and this name is found in combinations such as 'Abd-ul Majid ‘servant of the All-Glorious’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Majid is read(measured from records)
Majid is one spelling over 5 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.
- Hindi24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Majid in Hindi.
- English15%
Any of the family Majidae of sea spiders or spider crabs.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Urdu14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Majid in Urdu.
- Arabic7.9%
glorious, noble, honourable, generous; Allah's attribute
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
glorious, noble
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- Persian6.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Majid in Persian.
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)
Majid 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 | #38 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 14 | Majeed | 125 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | listed | Majid | 141 |
| IQ Iraq | #61 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 1 | Majid | 60 |
| BD Bangladesh | #233 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Mojid | 53 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Majid | 89 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #89 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Majeed | 126 |
| BH Bahrain | #72 | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Majeed | 41 |
| NO Norway | — | 454 | 1 in 12K | 612 | Majeed | 24 |
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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)
Majid 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.
from a personal name based on Arabic majid ‘glorious’, ‘noble’. Al-Majid ‘the Glorious’ is an attribute of Allah, and this name is found in combinations such as 'Abd-ul Majid ‘servant of the All-Glorious’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
‘Glorious’, ‘illustrious’. Feminine form: Majida.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Swedish, Majid, Majd och Majed är arabiska namn med samma ursprung. Majd betyder ’ära, härlighet’ medan Majid och Majed är adjektivformer (’ärorik, ädel’).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Majid Arslanb. 1908LBLebanese politician
- Majid Samiib. 1937DEIranian neurosurgeon
- Majid Entezamib. 1948IRIranian musician and composer
- Majid Majidib. 1959IRIranian film director, film producer, film actor and screenwriter
- Majid Khademib. 1962IRIranian IRGC member
- Majid Ibn Rezab. 1964IRMinister of Defense and Armed Logistics of the Islamic Republic of Iran (born 1964)
- Seyed Majid Mousavib. 1965IRIranian general
- Majid Shahriarib. 1966IRIranian scientist (1966–2010)
- Majid Berhilab. 1979FRFrench actor
- Magid Magidb. 1989GBnot in their usual nameSomali-British politician and activist (born 1989)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 75 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 612 | #2,205 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 454 | #3,108 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 227 | — |
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)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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
- Where does the name Majid come from?
- from a personal name based on Arabic majid ‘glorious’, ‘noble’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Majid mean?
- In English, Any of the family Majidae of sea spiders or spider crabs.
- Is Majid a male or female name?
- Majid 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 Majid?
- In the etymology graph, Mecit is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Majid have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 146 thousand people named Majeed in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Majid?
- In Norway, the national register counted 454 people named Majid, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Majid compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Majid is the 38th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/majidThe 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, “Majid” — the 38th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.