Khaliq

surname · Latin script

Meaning: creator

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kəliːk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Khaliq is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 82nd most common surname.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 3.7K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 27K
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 64K

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)

≈63,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
155 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Pakistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KhaliqLatin(measured from records)
খলিকBengali(measured from records)
ଖଳିକOdia(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)

creator

Sources 1

  • Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

Where in the world(measured from records)

Khaliq 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.

Where Khaliq is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#82≈63,000 est.≈1 in 3.7K7Khaliq94
AF Afghanistan#723≈3,000 est.≈1 in 12K1Khaliq17
SA Saudi Arabia#607≈1,300 est.≈1 in 27KlistedKhaliq35
GB United Kingdom—≈1,000 est.≈1 in 64K—Khaliq129
AE United Arab Emirates#498≈930 est.≈1 in 11K—Khaliq50
US United States—4171 in 798K612Khaliq155
QA Qatar—≈75 est.≈1 in 32K—Khaliq11

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)

Khaliq is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Khāliq, K̲h̲alīq

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, United Kingdom, Pakistan

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Khalîq

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United Kingdom, United States, Pakistan

    Also written Khâliq

49 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)

Khaliq is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Arabic, qualified, suitable, worthy of

    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)

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)

Formalمحترم Khaliq،Dear Khaliq, (English)
Informalمحترم Khaliq،Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 33 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Khaliq
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020529#43,886
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010417#50,196
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000222#79,676
PK PakistanElection Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election20187#111
AF AfghanistanWikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names—1#168
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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

What does the name Khaliq mean, and where does it come from?
creator Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
How do you pronounce Khaliq?
A machine transcription gives /kəliːk/ (IPA) for Urdu.
In which country does Khaliq have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 63 thousand people named Khaliq in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled khaliq.
How common is the name Khaliq?
In the United States, the national register counted 417 people named Khaliq in 2010, about 1 in 798 thousand residents.
How common is Khaliq compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Khaliq is the 82nd most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Khaliq” — the 82nd most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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