Afzul
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Afzul is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common surname.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 700as Afzal(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 10Kas Afzal
- DKDenmark1 in 23Kas Afzal
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 Afzul 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
- 275 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 702 (inferred from the name graph)
≈330,000 named Afzal, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est., as Afzal
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Afzal in PK Pakistan, US United States, BD Bangladesh and 3 more and Afjal in SA Saudi Arabia, KW Kuwait.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Afzul 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 | #26 | ≈330,000 est. | ≈1 in 702 | 19 | Afzal | 155 |
| BD Bangladesh | #309 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | listed | Afzal | 70 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Afjal | 13 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Afzal | 5 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Afzal | 49 |
| US United States | — | 1,634as Afzal | 1 in 204K | 2.2K | Afzal | 275 |
| NO Norway | — | 776as Afzal | 1 in 7K | 776 | Afzal | 22 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Afjal | 5 |
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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Afzul a male or female name?
- Afzul 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 Afzul have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 333 thousand people named Afzal in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Afzul?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,634 people named Afzal in 2010, about 1 in 204 thousand residents.
- How common is Afzul compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Afzul is the 26th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Afzul?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/afzulThe 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, “Afzul” — the 26th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.