Akhter
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/æktɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Akhter is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 5th most common surname.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 676as Akhtar
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 1.8Kas Akhtar
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 Akhter itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- #873 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 333 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈350,000 named Akhtar, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Akhtar in PK Pakistan, IN India, GB United Kingdom and 4 more.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Akhter 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 | #5 | ≈350,000 est. | ≈1 in 676 | 17 | Akhtar | 146 |
| BD Bangladesh | #39 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Akhter | 115 |
| IN India | #303 | 17,547as Akhtar | 1 in 76K | 18K | Akhtar | 164 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #96 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | listed | Akhtar | 84 |
| GB United Kingdom | #385 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Akhtar | 224 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #81 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Akhtar | 88 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,952as Akhtar | 1 in 2.8K | 2K | Akhtar | 40 |
| BH Bahrain | #130 | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Akhtar | 31 |
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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rosy Afsarib. 1940BDnot in their usual nameBangladeshi Film actress
- Bobitab. 1953BDnot in their usual nameBangladeshi film actress
- Shirin Akhterb. 1954BDBangladeshi politician
- Nasima Akhterb. 1970BDBangladeshi nuclear medicine physician
- Taslima Akhterb. 1974BDBangladeshi activist and photographer
- Shapla Akhterb. 1981BDbadminton player
- Sharmin Akhterb. 1995BDBangladeshi cricketer
- Rehman Akhterb. 1996INIndian academic
- Nargis AkhterBDBangladeshi film director
- Farida AkhterBDBangladeshi government advisor
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)
Attested in 28 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 481 | #1,238 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 288 | #82 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 104 | #14,745 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 102 | #28,105 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #1,823 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #15,933 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 3 | #218 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #4,257 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #193,690 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- How do you pronounce Akhter?
- A machine transcription gives /æktɝ/ (IPA) for Bangla.
- In which country does Akhter have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 345 thousand people named Akhtar in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Akhter?
- In India, the national register counted 17,547 people named Akhtar, about 1 in 76 thousand residents.
- How common is Akhter compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Akhter is the 5th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Akhter?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/akhterThe 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, “Akhter” — the 5th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.