Chishti
surname · Latin script
Meaning: belonging to the place — (Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Chishti is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 85K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 190Kfew records
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 Chishti itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)belonging to the place —
Cited for this meaning 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Where the surname Chishti is found
(measured from records)Chishti 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 | #419 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 6 | Chishti | 65 |
| IN India | — | 298 | 1 in 4.4M | 298 | Chishti | 50 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 658K | — | Chishti | 19 |
| US United States | — | 199 | 1 in 1.7M | 282 | Chishti | 144 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 193K | listed | Chishti | 13 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Chishti | 28 |
| NO Norway | — | 64 | 1 in 85K | 64 | — | 4 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Chishti | 6 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)Chishti 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, Belonging to the Chishti order.
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)- Mu'in al-Din Chishtib. 1143IRPersian Sufi Chishtiyya order mystic (1143–1236)
- Salim Chishtib. 1478INSufi saint of the Chishti Order during the Mughal Empire in India
- Rehman Chishtib. 1978GBBritish politician (born 1978)
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chishti mean, and where does it come from?
- belonging to the place — Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Chishti?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Chishti in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chishti. After it come India, Bangladesh, United States and Saudi Arabia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Chishti?
- In India, the national register counted 298 people named Chishti, about 1 in 4.4 million residents.
- How common is Chishti compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Chishti is the 419th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chishti?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chishtiThe 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, “Chishti” — ranked 124th in Pakistan (Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.