Names of Bangladesh BD

The names that most distinguish Bangladesh from the rest of the world are Akter, Islam and Begum; in our record corpus the commonest names held in Bangladesh are Mohammad and Begum.

Written in Bangla.

Population: 163M
Name forms recorded: 18K

BBuilt from 17,815 name forms in our corpus, 6 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

fewerlarger share

Where the names most characteristic of Bangladesh are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Bangladesh included.

How names work in Bangladesh

Names in Bangladesh follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

BengaliHow these names work →

The most common names in Bangladesh

Every record we hold for Bangladesh — 17,815 name forms across historical registers, the diaspora and several decades of births. Not a census.
#	Name	Estimated bearers	How common
2	Mohammad	—	—
5	Abdul	—	—
6	Mst	—	—
8	Hasan	—	—
9	Nur	—	—
11	Sumon	—	—
12	Ali	—	—
13	Amin	—	—
14	Saiful	—	—
15	Sohel	—	—
16	Mehedi	—	—
17	Abul	—	—
18	Nazmul	—	—
19	Abdur	—	—
20	Abdullah	—	—
21	Masud	—	—
22	Mizanur	—	—
23	Rasel	—	—
24	Fatema	—	—
25	Monir	—	—
26	Syed	—	—
27	Jakir	—	—
28	Mamun	—	—
29	Anwar	—	—
30	Shamim	—	—
31	Arif	—	—
32	Raju	—	—
33	Jahid	—	—
34	মো	—	—
35	Shahidul	—	—
36	নীল	—	—
37	Nazrul	—	—
38	Imran	—	—
39	Tanvir	—	—
42	Kamrul	—	—
43	Sabbir	—	—
44	Sharmin	—	—
45	Jahangir	—	—
46	Kamal	—	—
47	Nurul	—	—
48	Salma	—	—
49	Nazma	—	—
50	Rakib	—	—
51	Rayhan	—	—
53	Late	—	—
54	Asma	—	—
55	Robiul	—	—
57	Taslima	—	—
58	Nusrat	—	—
59	Sujon	—	—
60	Shahadat	—	—
61	Sadia	—	—
62	Rafiqul	—	—
63	Salim	—	—
64	Ashraful	—	—
67	Rony	—	—
68	Masum	—	—
69	Rajib	—	—
70	Rakibul	—	—
71	Golam	—	—
72	Habibur	—	—
73	Amena	—	—
75	Alamgir	—	—
76	Sakib	—	—
77	Tania	—	—
78	Nasir	—	—
79	Ariful	—	—
80	Ruma	—	—
81	Faisal	—	—
82	Shafiqul	—	—
83	Jannatul	—	—
84	Liton	—	—
85	Khadiza	—	—
86	Shakil	—	—
87	Akash	—	—
88	Mahmud	—	—
89	Sumaiya	—	—
90	Mahmudul	—	—
91	Ibrahim	—	—
92	Sajib	—	—
93	Jesmin	—	—
94	Rahima	—	—
95	Asif	—	—
96	Farjana	—	—
97	Nasima	—	—
98	Aminul	—	—
99	Shariful	—	—
100	Nasrin	—	—
101	Jashim	—	—
102	Rezaul	—	—
103	Anamul	—	—
104	Jamal	—	—
105	Abdus	—	—
106	Tarek	—	—
107	Rozina	—	—
108	Fahim	—	—
109	Nahid	—	—
110	Jahanara	—	—
111	Farhana	—	—
112	Sazzad	—	—

No official register

We have not found a published name register for Bangladesh at an authority tier we would headline. The ranking above is our record corpus, and it is labelled as such. If you publish or know of a register for this country, we would like to hear about it.

Characteristic of Bangladesh

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Bangladesh holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

Sized by how much of the difference between Bangladesh's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.

Scripts & spelling

Names in Bangladesh are written in Latin (97%) and Bengali (3%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.

The best-attested names in Bangladesh, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

Babu (title)encyclopaedia
Banerjeeencyclopaedia
Bangladesh Personal Namesgenealogy
Bengali Brahminencyclopaedia
Bengali nameencyclopaedia
What is it with Bengalis and their names?web

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.

Questions

Is there an official list of the most common names in Bangladesh?: We have not found one at an authority tier we would publish. The ranking on this page comes from our own record corpus and is labelled as such. If a register exists, we would like to hear about it.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Bangladesh”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/BD (data snapshot 2026-10-09).