Anjum
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Anjum is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 85th most common surname. Recorded meaning: pl. of Najm @Ds, Star.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 11K
- INIndia1 in 1.3M
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, 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)
pl. of Najm @Ds, Star
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anjum 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 | #85 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 2 | Anjum | 132 |
| BD Bangladesh | #291 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Anjum | 67 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #403 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Anjum | 46 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #322 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Anjum | 64 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 196K | — | Anjum | 22 |
| IN India | #964 | 1,010 | 1 in 1.3M | 1K | Anjum | 131 |
| BH Bahrain | #659 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Anjum | 11 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Anjum is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, plural of Najm, stars
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, star
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
stars
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rani Lill Anjumb. 1974NONorwegian philosopher
- Saba Anjum Karimb. 1985INIndian field hockey player
- Sair Anjumb. 1990DKDanish cricketer
- Saeed AnjumNONorwegian director and screenwriter
- Abdullah AnjumTRTurkish chef and restaurateur
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 39 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 8.7K | #408 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1K | #5,437 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 2 | #308 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Anjum mean, and where does it come from?
- pl. of Najm @Ds, Star Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- In which country does Anjum have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 144 thousand people named Anjum in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anjum.
- How common is the name Anjum?
- In India, the national register counted 1,010 people named Anjum, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Anjum compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Anjum is the 85th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Anjum” — the 85th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.