Bajwa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Punjabi
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bæʒwə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bajwa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 12K
- CACanada≈1 in 29K
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
- 244 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname from Punjabi.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bajwa 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 | #249 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 6 | Bajwa | 91 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #335 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Bajwa | 25 |
| US United States | — | 1,990 | 1 in 167K | 2.8K | Bajwa | 244 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #402 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Bajwa | 37 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Bajwa | 105 |
| OM Oman | #660 | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Bajwa | 9 |
| KW Kuwait | #581 | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Bajwa | 15 |
| BH Bahrain | #350 | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Bajwa | 7 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Qamar Javed Bajwab. 1960PK16th Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- A. Bajwab. 1960PKbadminton player
- Arjan Bajwab. 1977INIndian actor
- Rupa Bajwab. 1979INIndian writer
- Neeru Bajwab. 1980CACanadian actress, director and producer
- Sonam Bajwab. 1989INIndian actress
- Poonam Bajwab. 1989INIndian film actress and model
- Ranjit Bawab. 1989INnot in their usual nameIndian singer and actor
- Jugpreet Singh Bajwab. 1994CACanadian singer
- Jasmin Bajwab. 1996INIndian actress and model
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 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,999 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,876 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #19,908 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 6 | #123 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Bajwa mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Punjabi. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bajwa?
- A machine transcription gives /bæʒwə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Bajwa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 135 thousand people named Bajwa in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bajwa.
- How common is the name Bajwa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,990 people named Bajwa in 2010, about 1 in 167 thousand residents.
- How common is Bajwa compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Bajwa is the 249th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bajwaThe 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, “Bajwa” — the 249th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.