Aurangzeb
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Muhyi'd-Din Muhammad (1618–1707), the sixth Mughal emperor, who ruled over almost the entire Indian subcontinent for a period of 49 years
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɔɹæŋɡzɛb/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aurangzeb is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 2.7M(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 20K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 98K
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)
- Sources
- 73 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Ss,5!: ornament of the throne. Muhyi-id-Din Muhammad Aurangzeb: Mughal emperor, well-known for his piety during whose reign (1658-1707) the Mughal empire reached its farthest
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Aurangzeb is read(measured from records)
Aurangzeb is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Urdu27%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Aurangzeb in Urdu.
- English20%
Muhyi'd-Din Muhammad (1618–1707), the sixth Mughal emperor, who ruled over almost the entire Indian subcontinent for a period of 49 years.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Aurangzeb in Hindi.
- Arabic7.7%
Ss,5!: ornament of the throne. Muhyi-id-Din Muhammad Aurangzeb: Mughal emperor, well-known for his piety during whose reign (1658-1707) the Mughal empire reached its farthest
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aurangzeb 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 1 | Aurangzeb | 59 |
| CN China | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Aurangzeb | 2 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 263K | — | Aurangzeb | 1 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 98K | listed | — | — |
| US United States | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | listed | Aurangzeb | 73 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 640K | — | Aurangzeb | 47 |
| ES Spain | 30 | 1 in 1.7M | 30 | Aurangzeb | 8 |
| AT Austria | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 592K | — | Aurangzeb | 4 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Aurangzeb 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.
217% embellisher of the throne.
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
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.
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)
Attested in 21 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 28 | #67,478 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 28 | #65,950 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 1 | #515 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Aurangzeb come from?
- Ss,5!: ornament of the throne. Muhyi-id-Din Muhammad Aurangzeb: Mughal emperor, well-known for his piety during whose reign (1658-1707) the Mughal empire reached its farthest Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Aurangzeb?
- A machine transcription gives /ɔɹæŋɡzɛb/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- Is Aurangzeb a male or female name?
- Aurangzeb 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.
- What does the name Aurangzeb mean?
- In English, Muhyi'd-Din Muhammad (1618–1707), the sixth Mughal emperor, who ruled over almost the entire Indian subcontinent for a period of 49 years.
- In which country does Aurangzeb have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Aurangzeb in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aurangzeb.
- How common is the name Aurangzeb?
- In Spain, the national register counted 30 people named Aurangzeb, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aurangzebThe 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, “Aurangzeb”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.