Hedayat
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hdeɪæt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hedayat is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 2.3M(inferred from the name graph)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 8.1K
- ATAustria≈1 in 259K
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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hedayat 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Hedayat | 8 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 468K | listed | — | 4 |
| IR Iran | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 464K | — | Hedayat | 35 |
| US United States | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | 257 | Hedayat | 108 |
| DE Germany | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Hedayat | 37 |
| AT Austria | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 259K | — | Hedayat | 10 |
| SE Sweden | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 418K | 33 | Hedayat | 4 |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 12 | — | — |
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 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Abdollah Hedayatb. 1899IRPersian politician (1899–1968)
- Sadegh Hedayatb. 1903IRIranian writer
- Habibollah Hedayatb. 1917IRIranian nutritonist
- Hormoz Hedayatb. 1945IRIranian actor, writer and film director
- Bahareh Hedayatb. 1981IRIranian activist
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)
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 257 | #79,808 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 169 | #105,600 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 142 | #114,166 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 33 | #17,410 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 12 | #34,740 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Hedayat?
- A machine transcription gives /hdeɪæt/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Hedayat a male or female name?
- Hedayat 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 Hedayat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.5 thousand people named Hedayat in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hedayat.
- How common is the name Hedayat?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 5 people named Hedayat, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Hedayat?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hedayatThe 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, “Hedayat”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.