Khurshid
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/khɝʃid/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Khurshid is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 4K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 10K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 15K
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 Khurshid 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
- 172 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uzbekistan, 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 Хуршид in UZ Uzbekistan, TJ Tajikistan.
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 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Khurshid 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 | #130 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 3 | Khurshid | 91 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #578 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 641 | listed | Хуршид | 14 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Khurshid | 52 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #123 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 4K | listed | Хуршид | 32 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Khurshid | 37 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Khurshid | 28 |
| US United States | — | 496 | 1 in 671K | 543 | Khurshid | 172 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Khurshid 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, sun. See Aftaab Glial; Mihr j4.; Shams ,juo%
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)
- Khurshid Ahmadb. 1932PKPakistani economist, philosopher and politician (1932-2025)
- Muhamad Khurshid Daquqlub. 1932IQIraqi Turkmen scientist
- Khurshid Davronb. 1952UZSoviet writer and poet
- Khurshid Alamb. 1973BDbadminton player
- Khurshid Nabievb. 1985UZUzbekistani judoka
- Khurshid NadeemPKPakistani Urdu columnist and TV host
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 543 | #42,928 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 404 | #51,512 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 213 | #82,344 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 3 | #257 |
| 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
- How do you pronounce Khurshid?
- A machine transcription gives /khɝʃid/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Khurshid a male or female name?
- Khurshid 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.
- What are other forms of the name Khurshid?
- In the etymology graph, Hurşit is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Khurshid have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Khurshid in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled khurshid.
- How common is the name Khurshid?
- In the United States, the national register counted 496 people named Khurshid in 2020, about 1 in 671 thousand residents.
- How common is Khurshid compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Khurshid is the 130th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Khurshid?
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/khurshidThe 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, “Khurshid” — the 130th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.