Khair

loc · Latin script

Meaning: goodness; good

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Khair is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.

rarermore common
  • INIndia
  • PKPakistan

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
74 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KhairLatin(measured from records)
ఖరTelugu(measured from records)

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)

goodness; good

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Khair counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Khair is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—23KKhair74
PK Pakistan—listedKhair54
US United States—1K—35
SE Sweden—164—3
ES Spain—77—3

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 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Khair is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Khàir

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written K̲h̲air

  • Bangla surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Bangla, Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Khayer, Khoyer, খয়ের, Ķhäîř, খযের

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Kĥaíŕ, Kĥặíř, Khäir, Khåïr, Khãįr

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Khair 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, good, blessing, boon, wealth, benevolent, fortune

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • In English, The tree Senegalia catechu from which cutch is obtained

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Arabic, good, blessing, boon, wealth, fortune

    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)

1940196019802000Mohammad Al Zaibak, b. 1951Nemat Abdullah Khair, b. 1957Fatima Khair, b. 1967Bella Hadid, b. 1996

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 36 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Khair
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—981#1,133
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020517#44,679
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010329#61,123
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—273#14,308
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000201#86,341
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—51#44,201
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—51#43,744
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—13#34,063
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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

What does the name Khair mean, and where does it come from?
goodness; good Recorded by African Muslim Names.
In which country does Khair have the most bearers?
Khair is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled khair.

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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, “Khair”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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