Farooqi
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/fɑɹuːki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Farooqi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Farooq.
- USUnited States1 in 384K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 78K
- DKDenmark1 in 159K
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)
- Sources
- 196 (measured from records)
- 1 in 78K (inferred from the name graph)
866 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of Farooq.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Farooqi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 866 | 1 in 384K | 1.2K | Farooqi | 196 |
| NO Norway | 70 | 1 in 78K | 70 | — | 1 |
| IN India | 69 | 1 in 19M | 69 | Farooqi | 44 |
| AF Afghanistan | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 836K | 1 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 37 | 1 in 159K | 37 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 34 | 1 in 300K | 34 | — | 7 |
| BE Belgium | 18 | 1 in 651K | 18 | Farooqi | 5 |
866 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
- Sulayman al-Taji al-Faruqib. 1882JOnot in their usual namePalestinian politician, writer and poet
- Sadaf Farooqib. 1900GBBritish consultant physician
- Amjad Farooqib. 1972PKPakistani terrorist
- Sharmila Farooqib. 1978PKPakistani politician
- Fazalhaq Farooqib. 2000AFAfghan cricketer
- Mohammed A FarooqiPKresearcher
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,171 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 866 | #27,756 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 589 | #35,994 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 70 | #20,458 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 69 | #36,245 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 37 | #13,881 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 34 | #17,188 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 32 | #8,196 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 18 | #50,903 |
| AF Afghanistan | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #121 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Farooqi mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Farooq. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Farooqi?
- A machine transcription gives /fɑɹuːki/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Farooqi have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 866 people named Farooqi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled farooqi.
- Where is Farooqi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Farooqi is densest in Norway — about 1 in 78 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Farooqi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 866 people named Farooqi in 2010, about 1 in 384 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/farooqiThe 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, “Farooqi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.