Khanif
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Khanif is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 100th most common surname.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.4Kas Hanif(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.6Kas Hanif
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 3.9Kas Hanif
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 Khanif 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)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 named Hanif, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est., as Hanif
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hanif in PK Pakistan, BD Bangladesh, US United States and 4 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Khanif 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 | #100 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | listed | Hanif | 122 |
| BD Bangladesh | #96 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | listed | Hanif | 81 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Hanif | 31 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #313 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | listed | Hanif | 60 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #169 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Hanif | 66 |
| US United States | — | 1,304as Hanif | 1 in 255K | 1.6K | Hanif | 108 |
| BH Bahrain | #152 | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Hanif | 12 |
| GY Guyana | — | 244as Hanif | 1 in 3.1K | 244 | — | — |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Khanif a male or female name?
- Khanif 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 Khanif have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 146 thousand people named Hanif in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Khanif?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,304 people named Hanif in 2010, about 1 in 255 thousand residents.
- How common is Khanif compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Khanif is the 100th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Khanif?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/khanifThe 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, “Khanif” — the 100th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.