Jamshed
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Name borne chiefly by Parsis and Muslims
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒamʃt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jamshed is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 7.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 24K
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
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
- 109 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 877 (inferred from the name graph)
≈30,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tajikistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Name borne chiefly by Parsis and Muslims. Jamshed was a legendary king of ancient Persia, the founder of Persepolis.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jamshed 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 | #583 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | 2 | Jamshed | 70 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Jamshed | 41 |
| TJ Tajikistan | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 877 | — | Jamshed | 26 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #920 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 24K | listed | Jamshed | 20 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Jamshed | 15 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Jamshed | 30 |
| US United States | — | 288 | 1 in 1.2M | 286 | Jamshed | 109 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Jamshed | 11 |
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)
Jamshed is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, the sun in Pisces.'”” "Mas. pr. name."!”* A king of Iran
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, the sun in Pisces
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)
- Jamshed P. Iranib. 1938INIndian wildlife and botanical illustrator (1938–2026)
- Jamshed Akhtarb. 1947INIndian engineer and author (1947-)
- Jamshed Bharuchab. 1956USAmerican academic
- Jamshed Mahmood Razab. 1972PKPakistani film producer
- Jamshed Ahmedb. 1988PKCricket player
- Jamshed BaghwanPKPakistani journalist
- Maulana Jamshed Ali KhanPKPakistani Islamic scholar and preacher
- Jamshed HashimPKchemist and researcher
- Jamshed AnwarGBresearcher
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 28 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 197 | #98,501 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 139 | #123,796 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 2 | #351 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Where does the name Jamshed come from?
- Name borne chiefly by Parsis and Muslims. Jamshed was a legendary king of ancient Persia, the founder of Persepolis. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Jamshed?
- In the etymology graph, Jamshid and Jamsheed are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Jamshed?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒamʃt/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Jamshed a male or female name?
- Jamshed 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 does the name Jamshed mean?
- Recorded meaning: Name borne chiefly by Parsis and Muslims.
- In which country does Jamshed have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Jamshed in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jamshed.
- How common is the name Jamshed?
- In the United States, the national register counted 288 people named Jamshed in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Jamshed compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Jamshed is the 583rd 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/jamshedThe 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, “Jamshed” — the 583rd most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.