Haleem
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A stew-like dish traditionally consisting of wheat, mutton, spices, and other ingredients, popular in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Haleem is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 20K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 25K
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)
- Sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A stew-like dish traditionally consisting of wheat, mutton, spices, and other ingredients, popular in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Haleem is read(measured from records)
Haleem is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Urdu35%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Haleem in Urdu.
- Arabic12%
He does not anger
as a nameThe book of African names
- English9.0%
A stew-like dish traditionally consisting of wheat, mutton, spices, and other ingredients, popular in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi7.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Haleem in Hindi.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Haleem 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 | #230 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 1 | Haleem | 67 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Haleem | 5 |
| LK Sri Lanka | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Haleem | 7 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 320K | — | Haleem | 9 |
| CN China | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Haleem | 3 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Haleem | 2 |
| US United States | — | 380 | 1 in 875K | 531 | Haleem | 101 |
| GY Guyana | — | 16 | 1 in 47K | 16 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Safia Haleemb. 1955PKPakistani journalist (1955-)
- Moomina HaleemMVMaldivian politician
- Asad Bilal HaleemGBresearcher
- Mohamed HaleemUSresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-5068-2001
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 531 | #43,758 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 380 | #54,296 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 246 | #73,412 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 16 | #609 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 1 | #638 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Haleem mean, and where does it come from?
- A stew-like dish traditionally consisting of wheat, mutton, spices, and other ingredients, popular in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Haleem have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Haleem in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled haleem.
- How common is the name Haleem?
- In the United States, the national register counted 380 people named Haleem in 2010, about 1 in 875 thousand residents.
- How common is Haleem compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Haleem is the 230th 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/haleemThe 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, “Haleem” — the 230th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.