Mirwais
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mirwais is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country, where it is the 74th most common given name.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 797(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
- ATAustria≈1 in 64K
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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 797 (inferred from the name graph)
≈46,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mirwais 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #74 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 797 | 1 | Mirwais | 36 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 183K | listed | Mirwais | 14 |
| US United States | — | 310 | 1 in 1.1M | 310 | Mirwais | 90 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 309K | listed | Mirwais | 48 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 563K | — | Mirwais | 1 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 64K | 3 | Mirwais | 12 |
| SE Sweden | — | 98 | 1 in 104K | 98 | Mirwais | 10 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 152K | — | Mirwais | 11 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 167K | 162 | Mirwais | 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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; the de-munich-vornamen register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Prince Mirwais Khan of Afghanistanb. 1957AFAfghani Royal
- Mirwaisb. 1960FRAfghan and French record producer and songwriter
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 21 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 310 | #28,814 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 162 | #5,575 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 98 | #8,658 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 80 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 71 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 66 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 58 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 53 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 48 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 42 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 39 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 36 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Is Mirwais a male or female name?
- Mirwais 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 Mirwais have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Mirwais in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mirwais.
- How common is the name Mirwais?
- In the United States, the national register counted 310 people named Mirwais in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Mirwais compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Mirwais is the 74th most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mirwais?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mirwaisThe 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, “Mirwais” — the 74th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.