Aqil

given name · Latin script

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

Aqil is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 7.6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 41K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.5M

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)

≈6,800 people, est.

Sources
115 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Azerbaijan, 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.

Sources 1

Where in the world(measured from records)

Aqil 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 Aqil is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan—≈6,800 est.≈1 in 34K—Aqil32
ID Indonesia—≈6,500 est.≈1 in 41KlistedAqil88
AZ Azerbaijan—≈5,300 est.≈1 in 1.9K170Aqil8
MY Malaysia#500≈4,300 est.≈1 in 7.6K—Aqil40
AF Afghanistan—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 28K—Aqil11
US United States—2211 in 1.5M220Aqil115
SG Singapore—≈160 est.≈1 in 40K—Aqil26

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; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)

Aqil is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Malaysia, Gabon

    Also written Aqíl

41 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)

Aqil 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 Kurdish, smart, intelligent

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

19401960198020002020Aqil Davidson, b. 1953Agil Mammadov, b. 1972Agil Nabiyev, b. 1982Aqil Mammadov, b. 1989Aqil Razak, b. 1997Aqil Qəbilov, b. 2004

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 27 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Aqil
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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

Is Aqil a male or female name?
Aqil 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 Aqil have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 6.8 thousand people named Aqil in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aqil.
How common is the name Aqil?
In the United States, the national register counted 221 people named Aqil in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
How common is Aqil compared with other names?
In Malaysia, Aqil is the 500th most common given name of 388,685 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, “Aqil” — the 500th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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