Esfandiar

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/zfændiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Esfandiar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.8M(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 352K
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 705K

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.

United States (measured from records)

119 people, 2020

Sources
76 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 352K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Esfandiar 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.

Where Esfandiar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1191 in 2.8M119Esfandiar76
PK Pakistan≈110 est.≈1 in 2.1Mlisted—1
IR Iran≈62 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Esfandiar26
EG Egypt≈55 est.≈1 in 1.9M—Esfandiar1
DE Germany≈54 est.≈1 in 1.5M—Esfandiar43
CA Canada≈33 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Esfandiar19
SE Sweden291 in 352K29Esfandiar5
BE Belgium≈11 est.≈1 in 1M—Esfandiar5
AT Austria≈11 est.≈1 in 829K—Esfandiar5
EE Estonia≈2 est.≈1 in 705Klisted—1

119 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Esfandiar is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Iran, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Эсфандияр

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Esfandiar,

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 9 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Esfandiar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020119#50,487
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—29#19,547
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200726—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200626—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200526—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200426—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200326—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200226—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200026—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)199926—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200825—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200125—

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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

How do you pronounce Esfandiar?
A machine transcription gives /zfændiə/ (IPA) for English.
Is Esfandiar a male or female name?
Esfandiar 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.
In which country does Esfandiar have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 119 people named Esfandiar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled esfandiar.
Where is Esfandiar most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Esfandiar is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 352 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Esfandiar?
In the United States, the national register counted 119 people named Esfandiar in 2020, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.

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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, “Esfandiar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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