Jakir
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries
/d͡ʑakir/(machine-generated) Bangla · model-generated · read from জাকির
Jakir is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Bangladesh it is the 27th most common given name.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- OMOman≈1 in 3.9Kfew records
- QAQatar≈1 in 4.4Kfew records
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 Jakir 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Zakir in PK Pakistan, US United States, AZ Azerbaijan and Закир in KG Kyrgyzstan, UZ Uzbekistan.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jakir 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #642 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | 373 | Jakir | 138 |
| BD Bangladesh | #27 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Jakir | 108 |
| PK Pakistan | #488 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | listed | Zakir | 64 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #762 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Закир | 16 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #192 | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 253 | Zakir | 39 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #462 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Закир | 14 |
| OM Oman | #66 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Jakir | 2 |
| US United States | — | 869as Zakir | 1 in 383K | 859 | Zakir | 154 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)- Yakir Gueronb. 1813TRnot in their usual nameOttoman rabbi
- Yakir Aharonovb. 1932ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli physicist
- Yakir Plessnerb. 1935ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli economist
- Yakir Gabayb. 1966ILnot in their usual namebusinessman
- Yakir Ben Mosheb. 1973ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli poet
- Yakir Shinab. 1985ILnot in their usual nameProfessional footballer
- Yakir Arbibb. 1989ILnot in their usual nameJazz pianist
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 373 | #11,454 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 151 | #2,800 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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 Jakir?
- It depends on the language: in Bangla /d͡ʑakir/; in Indonesian /d͡kir/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Jakir a male or female name?
- Jakir is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: India (India Names Dataset).
- In which country does Jakir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 167 thousand people named Jakir in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jakir.
- How common is the name Jakir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 869 people named Zakir in 2020, about 1 in 383 thousand residents.
- How common is Jakir compared with other names?
- In India, Jakir is the 642nd most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jakir?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jakirThe 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, “Jakir” — the 642nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.