Akther
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Akther is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 29th most common surname.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 371(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 167K
- USUnited States1 in 372K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 139 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 371 (inferred from the name graph)
≈440,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, 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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Akther 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #29 | ≈440,000 est. | ≈1 in 371 | — | Akther | 87 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Akther | 26 |
| US United States | — | 895 | 1 in 372K | 2K | Akther | 139 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 137K | — | Akther | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Akther | 71 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Akther | 5 |
| DK Denmark | — | 78 | 1 in 75K | 78 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Akther | 1 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Sanjida Akhterb. 2001BDnot in their usual nameBangladeshi association football player
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 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,253 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 895 | #27,059 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 257 | #70,906 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 78 | #6,991 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- In which country does Akther have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 439 thousand people named Akther in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled akther.
- How common is the name Akther?
- In the United States, the national register counted 895 people named Akther in 2010, about 1 in 372 thousand residents.
- How common is Akther compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Akther is the 29th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aktherThe 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, “Akther” — the 29th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.