Israr
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Israr is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: secret, mystery.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2.1M
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 6.9K
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
- 102 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈78,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
secret, mystery
Sources 2
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Israr 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 | #198 | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 1 | Israr | 87 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 9K | listed | — | 1 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Israr | 5 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Israr | 1 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 213K | — | Israr | 40 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Israr | 14 |
| US United States | — | 161 | 1 in 2.1M | 154 | Israr | 102 |
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 — 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)
Israr is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, secret, mystery. See Asrar 5! pul, secrets
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Azerbaijani, insistence, insisting
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Arabic, secret, mystery
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)
- Israr Alib. 1927PKPakistani cricketer (1927-2016)
- Israr Ahmedb. 1932PKPakistan Muslim scholar (1932–2010)
- Israr Ahmadb. 1940INtheoretical physicist, professor
- Israr Alamb. 1953INIndian Islamic Scholar, writer, thinker and linguist
- Israr Hussainb. 1986PKPakistani swimmer
- Israr Azimb. 1990INIndian cricketer
- Israr Ahmedb. 1997PKPakistani squash player
- Israr Ahmad KhanPKpolitician in Pakistan
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 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 1 | #684 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Israr mean, and where does it come from?
- secret, mystery Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Is Israr a male or female name?
- Israr 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 Israr have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 78 thousand people named Israr in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled israr.
- How common is the name Israr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 161 people named Israr in 2020, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
- How common is Israr compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Israr is the 198th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/israrThe 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, “Israr” — the 198th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.