Mahvash
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məhvɑʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mahvash is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 631K(measured from records)
- AOAngola≈1 in 89K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 120K
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)
- Sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 89K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Mahvash 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 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 120K | listed | Mahvash | 10 |
| US United States | 527 | 1 in 631K | 527 | Mahvash | 113 |
| AO Angola | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Mahvash | 1 |
| EG Egypt | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 584K | listed | Mahvash | 4 |
| IR Iran | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 626K | — | Mahvash | 25 |
| CA Canada | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 392K | — | Mahvash | 20 |
| SE Sweden | 52 | 1 in 196K | 52 | Mahvash | 7 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 380K | — | Mahvash | 6 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; the wgnd-eg-names 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mahvash Mossaedb. 1950IRIranian writer
- Mahvash Vagharib. 1954IRIranian actress
- Mahvash Afsharib. 1955IRIranian Voice Actor
- Mahvash Shafaeib. 1956IRIranian fencer
- Mahvash Sabrkonb. 1960IRIranian actress
- Mahvash WaqarPKPakistani singer
- Mahvash Saeed QureshiEconomist (International Monetary Fund (IMF))
- Mahvash Hussain-GamblesGBresearcher
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 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 527 | #19,856 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 53 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 52 | #13,236 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 52 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 52 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 51 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 50 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 50 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 50 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 49 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 48 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 46 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 are other forms of the name Mahvash?
- In the etymology graph, Mehveş is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Mahvash?
- A machine transcription gives /məhvɑʃ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Mahvash a male or female name?
- Mahvash is a female 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 Mahvash have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Mahvash in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mahvash.
- How common is the name Mahvash?
- In the United States, the national register counted 527 people named Mahvash in 2020, about 1 in 631 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mahvash?
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/mahvashThe 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, “Mahvash”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.