Afshin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: spreading far and wide
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Afshin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- IRIran≈1 in 36K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 96K
- USUnited States1 in 378K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 223 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
spreading far and wide
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Afshin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Afshin | 5 |
| IR Iran | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Afshin | 67 |
| US United States | 881 | 1 in 378K | 853 | Afshin | 223 |
| DE Germany | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 191K | — | Afshin | 65 |
| CA Canada | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Afshin | 82 |
| SE Sweden | 200 | 1 in 51K | 200 | Afshin | 28 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Afshin | 33 |
| AT Austria | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 68K | 5 | Afshin | 23 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Afshin Ghotbib. 1964IRIranian-American football coach (born 1964)
- Afshin Ellianb. 1966NLDutch academic
- Afshin Rattansib. 1968GBBritish journalist
- Afshin Peyrovanib. 1970IRIranian footballer and coach
- Afshin Hashemib. 1975IRIranian actor
- Afshinb. 1978IRIranian singer-songwriter
- Afshin Ghaffarianb. 1986IRIranian choreographer, director
- Afshin Biabangardb. 1987IRIranian wrestler
- Afshin Kamran Bahramiscreenwriter
- Afshin MolaviUSIranian journalist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 853 | #13,624 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 200 | #5,237 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 171 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 167 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 162 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 161 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 150 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 149 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 148 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 147 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 142 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 141 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Afshin mean, and where does it come from?
- spreading far and wide Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- Is Afshin a male or female name?
- Afshin 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 Afshin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Afshin in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled afshin.
- How common is the name Afshin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 881 people named Afshin in 2020, about 1 in 378 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/afshinThe 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, “Afshin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.