Ansari
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɑnˈsɑɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ansari is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 34th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Arabic أَنْصَارِيّ (ʔanṣāriyy), from أَنْصَار (ʔanṣār, “helpers, supporters”).
- QAQatar≈1 in 261(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 397
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 495
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.
- India (measured from records)
- #207 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 306 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 261 (inferred from the name graph)
794,491 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Qatar, 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)
- Arabicأَنْصَارِيّʔanṣāriyy(measured from records)
- Arabic rootأَنْصَارʔanṣār“helpers, supporters”(measured from records)
From Arabic أَنْصَارِيّ (ʔanṣāriyy), from أَنْصَار (ʔanṣār, “helpers, supporters”)
Sources 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ansari 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #34 | 794,491 | 1 in 1.7K | 794K | Ansari | 279 |
| PK Pakistan | #123 | ≈330,000 est. | ≈1 in 717 | 3 | Ansari | 107 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #9 | ≈86,000 est. | ≈1 in 397 | listed | Ansari | 93 |
| AF Afghanistan | #160 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 996 | 1 | Ansari | 19 |
| BD Bangladesh | #292 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | listed | Ansari | 58 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #14 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 495 | — | Ansari | 123 |
| QA Qatar | #14 | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 261 | — | Ansari | 57 |
| KW Kuwait | #38 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 591 | — | Ansari | 51 |
| BH Bahrain | #31 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 661 | — | Ansari | 41 |
794,491 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Ansari 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, descendant of an Ansar; people who helped the Prophet in Madinah
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Finnish, greenhouse
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Arabic, nisba (relation) through ancestry to an Ansar. Sa‘d ibn Zayd al-Ansari: a sahaabi.”
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)
- Mukhtar Ahmed Ansarib. 1880INformer president of the Indian National Congress (1880–1936)
- Shaukatullah Shah Ansarib. 1908INIndian politician
- Bushra Ansarib. 1956PKPakistani actress
- Gholamreza Ansarib. 1956IRIranian politician
- Gholamreza Ansarib. 1956IRIranian diplomat
- Anousheh Ansarib. 1966IRIranian-American engineer and entrepreneur
- Nicole Ansarib. 1969DEGerman-American actress
- Aziz Ansarib. 1983USAmerican actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter and director
- Mohammad Ansarib. 1991IRfootballer
- Yassamin Ansarib. 1992USAmerican politician
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 40 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 794K | #34 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 8.1K | #149 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 3 | #223 |
| AF Afghanistan | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #86 |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Ansari mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic أَنْصَارِيّ (ʔanṣāriyy), from أَنْصَار (ʔanṣār, “helpers, supporters”) Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Ansari?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑnˈsɑɹi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Ansari have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 794 thousand people named Ansari, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ansari.
- How common is the name Ansari?
- In India, the national register counted 794,491 people named Ansari, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Ansari compared with other names?
- In India, Ansari is the 34th most common surname of 1,492,515 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, “Ansari” — the 34th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.