Jawad
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jawad is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Afghanistan it is the 47th most common given name. Recorded meaning: generous, liberal, open-handed.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 844(inferred from the name graph)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 1.2K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.2K
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 Jawad 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 245 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 844 (inferred from the name graph)
≈190,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Джавад in 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)
generous, liberal, open-handed. Nickname of Imam Taqi, the ninth Imam of the Shi‘ites.'*° See Karim as S, generous
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jawad 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 | #275 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | listed | Jawad | 134 |
| MA Morocco | #100 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 844 | — | Jawad | 96 |
| AF Afghanistan | #47 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Jawad | 28 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Jawad | 54 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #452 | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Jawad | 97 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #905 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 505 | Джавад | 28 |
| US United States | — | 2,076 | 1 in 160K | 2.1K | Jawad | 245 |
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 — 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jawad is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Jawad är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’generös’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In latn, generous, liberal, open-handed
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, generous
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Generoso
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Jawad Alib. 1907IQIraqi historian and academic (1907–1987)
- Jawad Saleemb. 1920IQIraqi sculptor (1920-1961)
- Javad Mansourib. 1945IRnot in their usual nameKommandeur der Revolutionsgarde (1979-1981)
- Jawad al-Bulanib. 1960IQIraqi politician
- Jawad Awadb. 1962PSPalestinian ambassador
- Jawad Ahmadb. 1970PKPakistani musician
- Jawad Issineb. 1991MAMoroccan association football player
- Jawad El Yamiqb. 1992MAassociation football player
- Javad Daraeib. 1992not in their usual nameIranian filmmaker (born 1992)
- Zayn Malikb. 1993GBnot in their usual nameEnglish singer
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 68 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,277 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 973 | #25,430 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 525 | #39,444 |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Jawad come from?
- generous, liberal, open-handed. Nickname of Imam Taqi, the ninth Imam of the Shi‘ites.'*° See Karim as S, generous Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- What does the name Jawad mean?
- Recorded meaning: generous, liberal, open-handed.
- Is Jawad a male or female name?
- Jawad 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 Jawad have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 194 thousand people named Jawad in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jawad.
- How common is the name Jawad?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,076 people named Jawad in 2020, about 1 in 160 thousand residents.
- How common is Jawad compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Jawad is the 275th 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/jawadThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Jawad” — the 275th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.