Names of Pakistan PK
The names that most distinguish Pakistan from the rest of the world are Muhammad, Khan and Ahmad; in our record corpus the commonest names held in Pakistan are Muhammad and Khan.
Written in Urdu, English, Punjabi, Sindhi and 2 more.
- Population
- 234M
- Official registers
- 1
- Name forms recorded
- 26K
At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.
How names work in Pakistan
6 naming traditions are in use in Pakistan, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.
The most common names in Pakistan
Characteristic of Pakistan
Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Pakistan 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.
Scripts & spelling
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
Official registers
- Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election2018not a population count
Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) counts election candidates: 1,068 surname forms for 2018. Last verified 2026-09-07.
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.
- Muslim personal names in Urdu: structure, meaning, and changepaper
- Afghan - Namingweb
- Afghan nameencyclopaedia
- Afghanistan Naming Customsgenealogy
- Baloch peopleencyclopaedia
- Balochi languageencyclopaedia
- Balochi Namesweb
- Balochi Traditional Names with English Meaningsweb
- Bugtiencyclopaedia
- Gurmukhiencyclopaedia
- imeuswegenealogy
- India Naming Customsgenealogy
- Indianweb
- Indian honorificsencyclopaedia
- Indian nameencyclopaedia
- Kaurencyclopaedia
- List of Pakistani family namesencyclopaedia
- Marri (tribe)encyclopaedia
- Muhammad (name)encyclopaedia
- Naming Conventions in Indiaweb
- Pakistan Naming Customsgenealogy
- Pakistaniweb
- Pakistani nameencyclopaedia
- Pashtun Khul, Khel, Kaum and Tribesweb
- Pashtun namesencyclopaedia
- Pseudonym, or takhallus, in Urduweb
- Punjabi Surnames and Meaningsweb
- Sahibencyclopaedia
- Sardarencyclopaedia
- Sayyidencyclopaedia
- Shahmukhiencyclopaedia
- Sikh namesencyclopaedia
- Sindhi Hindusencyclopaedia
- Sindhi namesencyclopaedia
- Sindhisencyclopaedia
- Singhencyclopaedia
- Takhallusencyclopaedia
- Understanding Dari and Pashto Namesweb
- Understanding the Real Difference Between Sikh, Punjabi, and Sardarweb
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 one naming system in Pakistan?
- No — 6 are described on this page (Urdu and Pakistani, Punjabi and Sikh, Pashtun and Afghan, Sindhi, Balochi, Hindi and North Indian), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.
Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Pakistan”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/PK (data snapshot 2026-10-09).