Names of Tajikistan TJ

The names that most distinguish Tajikistan from the rest of the world are Курбонов, Мирзоев and Шарипов; names here are written in Cyrillic.

Written in Tajik, Russian.

Population
8.9M
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
23K
BBuilt from 1 official register, 22,943 name forms in our corpus, 36 cited works.

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

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

How names work in Tajikistan

6 naming traditions are in use in Tajikistan, 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 Tajikistan

Characteristic of Tajikistan

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Tajikistan 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.

БахтиёрУмеджонДилшодАлишерСухробФирузДжамшедМухаммаджонАлиджонАбубакрФирдавсФаридунАбдурахмонМанучехрРаджабалиФарходФайзалиРамазонОишаКурбонали
Sized by how much of the difference between Tajikistan's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.(measured from records)

Scripts & spelling

Names in Tajikistan are written in Cyrillic (100%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.

Мухаммадgiven name(measured from records)Muhammad
Шариповsurname(measured from records)Sharipov
Саидовsurname(measured from records)Saidov
Сафаровsurname(measured from records)Safarov
Курбоновsurname(measured from records)Kurbonov
The best-attested names in Tajikistan, 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

Official registers

  • Ministry of Justice — most popular newborn names2023not a population count

    Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Tajikistan (Вазорати адлия / ЗАГС) counts newborns: 10 given-name forms for 2023, licence Free (government release via press). Last verified 2026-05-28.

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.

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 Tajikistan?
No — 6 are described on this page (Tajik, Russian, Ossetian, Uzbek and Russian, Chechen and Caucasian, Circassian), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

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