Haq
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Truth, the Right; also al-Haqq, one of God's names
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhæk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Haq is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 13th most common surname.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 2.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 226K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 225as Haque
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 Haq itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- #967 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 290 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈720,000 named Haque, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Haque in IN India, US United States, BD Bangladesh and 3 more and Hak in ID Indonesia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Truth, the Right; also al-Haqq, one of God's names.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Haq 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #13 | ≈720,000 est. | ≈1 in 225 | listed | Haque | 192 |
| PK Pakistan | #81 | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 16 | Haq | 137 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Hak | 59 |
| US United States | — | 13,437as Hook | 1 in 25K | 13K | Haque | 290 |
| IN India | #197 | 5,878 | 1 in 226K | 5.9K | Haque | 160 |
| QA Qatar | #168 | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Haque | 24 |
| KW Kuwait | #128 | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Haque | 19 |
| BH Bahrain | #153 | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Haque | 21 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)
Haq is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from a personal name based on Arabic/7a<7(? ‘true’, ‘truth’, ‘real’. Al-Haqq ‘the Truth’ is an attribute ofAllah. The name is often found in combinations, for example Abdul-Haqq ‘servant of the truth’, Nur-ul-Haqq ‘light of the truth’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Arabic, true, truth, real, right, just
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
just; right; true;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In Uzbek, truth, right
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)
- Bashirul Haqb. 1942BDBangladeshi architect
- Abul Kashem Fazlul Haqb. 1944BDBangladeshi writer, translator and critic
- Fazal Haqb. 1945PKbadminton player
- Anwara Syed Haqb. 1949BDwriter
- Iram Haqb. 1976NONorwegian actor, film director, model and singer
- Ehtsham Ul Haqb. 1982NONorwegian cricketer
- Hamza Haqb. 1990SAPakistani-Canadian actor
- Imam-ul-Haqb. 1995PKPakistani cricketer
- Naveen-ul-Haqb. 1999AFAfghan cricketer
- Ameerah Haqb. 2000BDBangladeshi diplomat
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 35 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 5.9K | #1,410 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,888 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,096 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,144 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 368 | #495 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 266 | #1,503 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 16 | #41 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Haq mean, and where does it come from?
- Truth, the Right; also al-Haqq, one of God's names. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Haq?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhæk/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- In which country does Haq have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 724 thousand people named Haque in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Haq?
- In India, the national register counted 5,878 people named Haq, about 1 in 226 thousand residents.
- How common is Haq compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Haq is the 13th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/haqThe 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, “Haq” — the 13th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.