Kifayat
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries
Kifayat is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: self-sufficiency.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 26K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia≈1 in 340K
- LVLatvia1 in 941K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)self-sufficiency
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kifayat 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 | #627 | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 26K | listed | Kifayat | 47 |
| IN India | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 344K | 5 | Kifayat | 39 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | Kifayat | 7 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Kifayat | 10 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Kifayat | 5 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 308K | — | Kifayat | 1 |
| LV Latvia | — | 2 | 1 in 941K | 2 | — | — |
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: the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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)Kifayat 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, self-sufficiency
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)- Kifayatullahb. 1963PKnot in their usual namePakistani Islamic scholar
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kifayat mean, and where does it come from?
- self-sufficiency Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Is Kifayat a male or female name?
- Kifayat is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people named Kifayat?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.8 thousand people named Kifayat in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kifayat. After it come India, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Afghanistan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kifayat?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 2 people named Kifayat, about 1 in 941 thousand residents.
- How common is Kifayat compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Kifayat is the 627th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kifayatThe 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, “Kifayat” — the 627th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.