Tufail
surname · Latin script
Meaning: little child; infant
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Tufail is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 6.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 17Kfew records
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 43Kfew records
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 Tufail itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. 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
- 111 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Tofayel 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)little child; infant
Cited for this meaning 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tufail 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 | #136 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | 5 | Tufail | 86 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Tofayel | 53 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 43K | listed | Tufail | 20 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #892 | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Tufail | 38 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 636K | — | Tufail | 24 |
| US United States | — | 198 | 1 in 1.7M | 250 | Tufail | 111 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Tufail | 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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)Tufail 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.
Any part or
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
In Arabic, intercession, mediation; diminutive of Tift, baby
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)- Tufayl ibn Amrb. 588not in their usual nameChief of the Banu Daws tribe (died 633 CE)
- Tufail Mohammadb. 1914PKmilitary officer in Pakistan army, recipient of highest military award, Nishan-e-Haider
- Tufail Niazib. 1916PKsinger
- Tufail Ali Abdul Rehmanb. 1921PKChief Justice High Court of Sindh
- Tufail Ahmadb. 2000INBritish journalist
- Tufayl ibn al-Harithnot in their usual nameSahaba
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)Evidence
(measured from records)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 250 | #81,574 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 198 | #92,719 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 127 | #124,872 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 5 | #177 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- What does the name Tufail mean, and where does it come from?
- little child; infant Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- In which country does Tufail have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Tufail in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tufail.
- How common is the name Tufail?
- In the United States, the national register counted 198 people named Tufail in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
- How common is Tufail compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Tufail is the 136th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tufailThe 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, “Tufail” — the 136th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.