Ahmadzai
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
Ahmadzai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common surname.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 300(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 8.5K
- FRFrance≈1 in 39K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 302 (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ahmadzai is found
(measured from records)Ahmadzai 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 | #15 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 302 | 1 | Ahmadzai | 51 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Ahmadzai | 23 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Ahmadzai | 83 |
| NO Norway | — | 644 | 1 in 8.5K | 644 | Ahmadzai | 12 |
| US United States | — | 305 | 1 in 1.1M | 1.2K | Ahmadzai | 130 |
| SE Sweden | #794 | 250 | 1 in 41K | 250 | Ahmadzai | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 193 | 1 in 44K | 193 | — | 3 |
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: Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- Ashraf Ghanib. 1949USnot in their usual namePresident of Afghanistan from 2014 to 2021 (17 11 2006
- Muqadasa Ahmadzaib. 1993AFAfghan girl
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ahmadzai?
- Mondonomo estimates about 141 thousand people named Ahmadzai in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ahmadzai. After it come Pakistan, France, Norway and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ahmadzai?
- In Norway, the national register counted 644 people named Ahmadzai, about 1 in 8.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Ahmadzai compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Ahmadzai is the 15th most common surname of 11,723 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ahmadzai?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ahmadzaiThe 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, “Ahmadzai” — the 15th most common surname in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.