Murshid
given name · Latin script
Meaning: one who shows the right
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məɹʃid/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Murshid is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- OMOman≈1 in 4.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- QAQatar≈1 in 26K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 34K
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 Murshid 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 66 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,300 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Oman, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
one who shows the right
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Murshid 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 38K | listed | Murshid | 41 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 126K | listed | — | 1 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 111K | listed | Murshid | 22 |
| OM Oman | #130 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Murshid | 23 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 69K | 1 | Murshid | 8 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 58K | listed | Murshid | 30 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Murshid | 30 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Murshid | 15 |
| SE Sweden | — | 13 | 1 in 785K | 13 | — | 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 muslim-baby-names-2000 register; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; 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)
Murshid is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
guide
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
In Arabic, leader, guide, adviser, counsellor. as! 1g. 5» ladie” Ale!) aNidaas ole bay Gag ratgall og "He, whom \Allah guides, is rightly guided; but he whom Allah sends astray, for him you will not find a guiding friend." (surat al-Kahf 18:17). See Nasih qos, adviser
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In English, An Islamic teacher, especially in Sufism.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Arabic, leader, guide, adviser, counsellor
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)
- Murszyd Mutalimowb. 1991RUnot in their usual nameRussian amateur wrestler
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 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 13 | #31,739 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | Muslim Baby Names (Nishāt, 2000) | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Murshid mean, and where does it come from?
- one who shows the right Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- How do you pronounce Murshid?
- A machine transcription gives /məɹʃid/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Murshid a male or female name?
- Murshid 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 Murshid have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Murshid in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled murshid.
- How common is the name Murshid?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 13 people named Murshid, about 1 in 785 thousand residents.
- How common is Murshid compared with other names?
- In Oman, Murshid is the 130th most common given name of 4,945 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Murshid?
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/murshidThe 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, “Murshid” — the 130th most common given name in Oman. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.