Hikmat
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Arabic: wisdom. 23: Gey clin Ge UsSatl S52 IyatS |jad (55! sas GeSall "He gives wisdom to whom He pleases, and he to whom wisdom is given, he truly has received abundant good." (surat al-Bagarah 2:269)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hɪkmæt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hikmat is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 37K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 39K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 3.1K
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 Hikmat 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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Хикмат in KG Kyrgyzstan, AZ Azerbaijan.
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)
wisdom. 23: Gey clin Ge UsSatl S52 IyatS |jad (55! sas GeSall "He gives wisdom to whom He pleases, and he to whom wisdom is given, he truly has received abundant good." (surat al-Bagarah 2:269)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hikmat is read(measured from records)
Hikmat is one spelling over 5 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.
- Urdu17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hikmat in Urdu.
- Arabic15%
wisdom. 23: Gey clin Ge UsSatl S52 IyatS |jad (55! sas GeSall "He gives wisdom to whom He pleases, and he to whom wisdom is given, he truly has received abundant good." (surat al-Bagarah 2:269)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- English13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hikmat in English.
- Hindi11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hikmat in Hindi.
- Indonesian8.5%
wisdom
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
Hikmat 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Hikmat | 84 |
| PK Pakistan | #833 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 37K | listed | Hikmat | 35 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Hikmat | 21 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | — | Hikmat | 5 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Хикмат | 15 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Hikmat | 12 |
| US United States | — | 357 | 1 in 932K | 257 | Hikmat | 60 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Хикмат | 7 |
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: the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Hikmat is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, magic art
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)
- Hikmat Sulaymanb. 1889IQPrime Minister of Iraq (1889–1964)
- Hikmat Abu Zaydb. 1922EGEgyptian politician and academic
- Hikmat al-Shihabib. 1931SYformer Syrian Army Chief of Staff (1931–2013)
- Hikmat Mizban Ibrahim al-Azzawib. 1933IQFinance Minister under the government of Saddam Hussein
- Hikmat al-Hajreb. 1965SYSyrian Druze religious leader
- Hikmat Mirzayevb. 1968AZAzerbaijani military officer
- Hikmat Hasanovb. 1975AZAzerbaijani military officer
- Hikmet Hajiyevb. 1979AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijan foreign policy advisor
- Khikmat Khashimovb. 1979UZnot in their usual nameUzbekistani footballer
- Hikmat Ramdanib. 2001IDIndonesian para-badminton player
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 32 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 257 | #26,192 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 100 | #26,192 |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Hikmat mean, and where does it come from?
- wisdom. 23: Gey clin Ge UsSatl S52 IyatS |jad (55! sas GeSall "He gives wisdom to whom He pleases, and he to whom wisdom is given, he truly has received abundant good." (surat al-Bagarah 2:269) Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Hikmat?
- A machine transcription gives /hɪkmæt/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- Is Hikmat a male or female name?
- Hikmat 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.
- What are other forms of the name Hikmat?
- In the etymology graph, Hikmet is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Hikmat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.9 thousand people named Hikmat in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hikmat.
- How common is the name Hikmat?
- In the United States, the national register counted 357 people named Hikmat in 2020, about 1 in 932 thousand residents.
- How common is Hikmat compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Hikmat is the 833rd most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hikmatThe 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, “Hikmat” — the 833rd most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.