Jilani
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jilani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 3.1M
- TNTunisia≈1 in 16K
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
- 84 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jilani 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 | #360 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Jilani | 64 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Jilani | 7 |
| US United States | — | 450 | 1 in 739K | 630 | Jilani | 84 |
| IN India | — | 431 | 1 in 3.1M | 431 | Jilani | 72 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 636K | — | Jilani | 15 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 178K | — | Jilani | 14 |
| SE Sweden | — | 30 | 1 in 340K | 30 | Jilani | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | 30 | 1 in 182K | 30 | — | 1 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Hina Jilanib. 1953PKPakistani activist
- Ismail JilaniPKPakistani film director
- Zaid JilaniAmerican journalist
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 31 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 630 | #37,907 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 450 | #47,186 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 431 | #10,299 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 420 | #8,130 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 283 | #65,492 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 30 | #34,786 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 30 | #18,690 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- In which country does Jilani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Jilani in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jilani.
- How common is the name Jilani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 450 people named Jilani in 2010, about 1 in 739 thousand residents.
- How common is Jilani compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Jilani is the 360th most common surname of 51,489 surnames 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/jilaniThe 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, “Jilani” — the 360th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.