Maqsood
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- India (India Names Dataset): listed as male
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- Norway (SSB): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Maqsood is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 68th most common given name. Recorded meaning: intended, aimed at, object.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 5K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 23K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 33Kfew records
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)
- Record sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈50,000 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)intended, aimed at, object
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Maqsood 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 | #68 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | listed | Maqsood | 119 |
| IN India | — | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 60K | 55 | Maqsood | 100 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Maqsood | 45 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Maqsood | 34 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Maqsood | 12 |
| US United States | — | 308 | 1 in 1.1M | 556 | Maqsood | 149 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Maqsood | 14 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Maqsood | 14 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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)Maqsood 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, intended, aimed at, object
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)- Maqsood MemonPKPakistani police officer
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)33 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 556 | #42,060 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 385 | #53,667 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 177 | #95,567 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 55 | #41,899 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 30 | #8,596 |
| US United States | wru 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 Maqsood mean, and where does it come from?
- intended, aimed at, object Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Is Maqsood a male or female name?
- Maqsood is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: India (India Names Dataset): listed as male; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; Norway (SSB): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Maqsood have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 50 thousand people named Maqsood in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maqsood.
- How common is the name Maqsood?
- In the United States, the national register counted 308 people named Maqsood in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Maqsood compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Maqsood is the 68th 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/maqsoodThe 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, “Maqsood” — the 68th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.