Choudhary
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʃaʊdhəɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Choudhary is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Chowdhury.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 5.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 234K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 28K
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)
- #941 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 309 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈41,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of Chowdhury.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Choudhary 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 | #981 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | 2 | Choudhary | 52 |
| CN China | — | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Choudhary | 8 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Choudhary | 23 |
| IN India | #151 | 5,663 | 1 in 234K | 5.7K | Choudhary | 309 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Choudhary | 18 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Choudhary | 19 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Choudhary | 38 |
| NO Norway | — | 144 | 1 in 38K | 144 | — | 15 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; 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)
Choudhary 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, A surname from Bengali.
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)
- Syed Nawab Ali Chowdhuryb. 1863BDnot in their usual nameNawab of Dhanbari of Tangail in East Bengal (1863-1929) (r. 1911-1929)
- A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhuryb. 1915BDnot in their usual nameBengali statesman, public servant and judge (1915–2001)
- Abu Sayeed Chowdhuryb. 1921BDnot in their usual nameBangladeshi jurist and politician (1921–1987)
- Salil Chowdhuryb. 1925INnot in their usual nameIndian composer, poet and playwright (1925–1995)
- Badrul Haider Chowdhuryb. 1925BDnot in their usual nameChief Justice of Bangladesh
- Mizanur Rahman Chowdhuryb. 1928BDnot in their usual nameformer Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1928-2006)
- A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhuryb. 1932BDnot in their usual namePresident of Bangladesh from 2001 to 2002 (1930–2024)
- Abdul Gaffar Choudhuryb. 1934BDnot in their usual namewriter from Bangladesh
- Zafrullah Chowdhuryb. 1941BDnot in their usual namePhysician & Co-ordinator, Gonoshasthaya Kendra
- Salahuddin Quader Chowdhuryb. 1949BDnot in their usual nameBangladeshi 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 28 sources across 18 countries.
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 Choudhary mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Chowdhury. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Choudhary?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃaʊdhəɹi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Choudhary have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41 thousand people named Choudhary in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled choudhary.
- How common is the name Choudhary?
- In India, the national register counted 5,663 people named Choudhary, about 1 in 234 thousand residents.
- How common is Choudhary compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Choudhary is the 981st 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/choudharyThe 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, “Choudhary” — the 981st most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.