Ashiq
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/æʃɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ashiq is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. Recorded meaning: adorer, lover, suitor.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 8.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.3Kas Ashik
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ashiq itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 named Ashik, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ashik in BD Bangladesh, ID Indonesia, NP Nepal and Asik in SA Saudi Arabia, KW Kuwait.
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)
adorer, lover, suitor
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ashiq 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #130 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | Ashik | 84 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | 3 | Ashiq | 93 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Ashik | 26 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Asik | 8 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 257K | — | Ashik | 9 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Asik | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | 24 | 1 in 2.1M | 124 | Ashiq | 23 |
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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Ashiq is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Alternative form of ashugh.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Arabic, adorer, lover, suitor
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)
- Ashiq Qurbanib. 1477AZAzerbaijani poet
- Ashiq Masihb. 1960PKhusband of Asia Bibi
- Ashiq Husain Khanb. 1984PKPakistani 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 29 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 124 | #23,700 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 124 | #23,538 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 3 | #226 |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Ashiq mean, and where does it come from?
- adorer, lover, suitor Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Ashiq?
- A machine transcription gives /æʃɪk/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- In which country does Ashiq have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 124 thousand people named Ashik in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ashiq?
- In Spain, the national register counted 24 people named Ashiq, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
- How common is Ashiq compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Ashiq is the 130th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ashiq?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ashiqThe 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, “Ashiq” — the 130th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.