Aqeel

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Aqeel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Bahrain it is the 71st most common given name. Recorded meaning: insight, mind, intellect, judiciousness.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 7K
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 34K

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)

≈77,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
154 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Pakistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AqeelLatin(measured from records)
อเคเอลThai(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)

insight, mind, intellect, judiciousness. Agqeel ibn Abu Talib: cousin of Muhammad (s).“° Comp. Aaqil Jate, wise

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Aqeel 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.

Where Aqeel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#265≈77,000 est.≈1 in 3K—Aqeel98
SA Saudi Arabia#775≈4,900 est.≈1 in 7K—Aqeel88
ID Indonesia—≈970 est.≈1 in 274K—Aqeel30
MY Malaysia—≈970 est.≈1 in 34K—Aqeel27
US United States—5561 in 598K554Aqeel154
BH Bahrain#71≈460 est.≈1 in 3.3K—Aqeel32
KW Kuwait—≈230 est.≈1 in 13K—Aqeel29

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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Aqeel is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Iraq, Pakistan, United States

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Âqêêl

  • Norwegian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, Sweden

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Âqêèĺ

  • Russian given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Акил, Akil, Акиль, Акіл, Акіль

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Aqeel is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Arabic, insight, mind, intellect; judicious, wise, sensible

    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)

500100015002000Aqil ibn Abi Talib, b. 590Aqeel Abbas Jafri, b. 1957Aqeel Karim Dhedhi, b. 1957Aqeel Khan, b. 1980Aqeel Ahmed, b. 1982Aqeel Rehman, b. 1985Aqeel Ahmed, b. 1987

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 35 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Aqeel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020346#62,494
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010205#90,113
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000123#127,948
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name 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

Where does the name Aqeel come from?
insight, mind, intellect, judiciousness. Agqeel ibn Abu Talib: cousin of Muhammad (s).“° Comp. Aaqil Jate, wise Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
What does the name Aqeel mean?
Recorded meaning: insight, mind, intellect, judiciousness.
Is Aqeel a male or female name?
Aqeel is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Aqeel have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 77 thousand people named Aqeel in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aqeel.
How common is the name Aqeel?
In the United States, the national register counted 556 people named Aqeel in 2020, about 1 in 598 thousand residents.
How common is Aqeel compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Aqeel is the 265th most common given name of 77,659 given names 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, “Aqeel” — the 265th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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