Anwari
given name · Latin script
Meaning: of light; shining
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/anwˈari/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Anwari is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia≈1 in 170K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 220Kfew records
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 410Kfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 172K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)of light; shining.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Where in the world
(measured from records)Anwari 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 | — | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 172K | 10 | Anwari | 33 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 223K | listed | Anwari | 97 |
| PK Pakistan | #783 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | listed | Anwari | 16 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 411K | — | Anwari | 16 |
| US United States | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 9.8M | 359 | Anwari | 20 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 202K | — | Anwari | 4 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 807K | — | Anwari | 6 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 359 | #60,581 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 174 | #103,181 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 123 | #127,948 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 10 | #122,521 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 9 | #101,667 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Anwari mean, and where does it come from?
- of light; shining. Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- How do you pronounce Anwari?
- In Indonesian /anwˈari/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Anwari a male or female name?
- Anwari is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: India (India Names Dataset).
- In which country does Anwari have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.4 thousand people named Anwari in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anwari.
- How common is the name Anwari?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8,400 people in India have Anwari as their first given name, about 1 in 172 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Anwari compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Anwari is the 783rd most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anwariThe 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, “Anwari” — the 783rd most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.