Bakhsh
surname · Latin script
Meaning: gift, fortune
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɑkʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bakhsh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 18th most common surname.
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 5K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 9.7K
- INIndia1 in 783K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Saudi Arabia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bakhash in PK Pakistan.
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)
gift, fortune
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bakhsh 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 | #18 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | 4 | Bakhash | 75 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #371 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Bakhsh | 99 |
| IN India | — | 1,693 | 1 in 783K | 1.7K | Bakhsh | 36 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #321 | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Bakhsh | 45 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 809K | — | Bakhsh | 6 |
| BH Bahrain | #218 | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Bakhsh | 20 |
| GY Guyana | — | 47 | 1 in 16K | 47 | Bakhsh | 3 |
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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Bakhsh 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 English, An administrative division of Iran, similar to a township in the United States or a district in England.
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)
- Murad Bakhshb. 1624INMughal prince (1624-1661)
- Maula Bakhshb. 1833(1833-1896)
- Rahim Bakhshb. 1921INsinger
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 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.7K | #3,588 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 61 | #5,225 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 47 | #578 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 4 | #184 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #282,211 |
Reference works 2
- 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 Bakhsh mean, and where does it come from?
- gift, fortune Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Bakhsh?
- A machine transcription gives /bɑkʃ/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- In which country does Bakhsh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Bakhsh in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bakhash.
- How common is the name Bakhsh?
- In India, the national register counted 1,693 people named Bakhsh, about 1 in 783 thousand residents.
- How common is Bakhsh compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Bakhsh is the 18th 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/bakhshThe 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, “Bakhsh” — the 18th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.