Aqil
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries
/akil/(machine-generated) Malay · model-generated · uncertain
Aqil is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 8.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 31K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 58Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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
- 115 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
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.
Cited for this meaning 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 108K | 58 | Aqil | 31 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 31K | listed | Aqil | 88 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 170 | Aqil | 8 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Aqil | 32 |
| MY Malaysia | #500 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | — | Aqil | 40 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Aqil | 11 |
| US United States | — | 221 | 1 in 1.5M | 220 | Aqil | 115 |
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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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 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)- Aqil Davidsonb. 1953USAmerican singer, record producer, songwriter
- Agil Mammadovb. 1972AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani football player and manager
- Agil Nabiyevb. 1982AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani footballer
- Aqil Mammadovb. 1989AZfootballer
- Aqil Razakb. 1997MYMalaysian footballer
- Aqil Qəbilovb. 2004AZbadminton player
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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 202 | #2,275 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 58 | #40,338 |
| US United States | wru 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
- How do you pronounce Aqil?
- It depends on the language: in Malay /akil/; in Indonesian /ˈakil/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Aqil a male or female name?
- Aqil is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice).
- In which country does Aqil have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Aqil in India, 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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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aqilThe 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, “Aqil” — the 500th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.