Mufti
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Indonesian: mufti (Muslim scholar)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mˈufti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mufti is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 684K(measured from records)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 25K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 26K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Saudi Arabia, 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 মুফতী in BD Bangladesh.
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(measured from records)
interpreter or expounder of Shari‘a (Islamic law)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
How Mufti is read(measured from records)
Mufti is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Indonesian22%
mufti (Muslim scholar)
as a wordrecorded as Malaykaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English21%
A Muslim scholar and interpreter of sharia law, who can deliver a fatwa.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Muslim religious leader
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Hindi14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mufti in Hindi.
- Urdu8.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mufti in Urdu.
- Arabic5.9%
interpreter or expounder of Shari‘a (Islamic law)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Islamic legal authority; mufti, a jurist issuing opinions
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
legal adviser; issuer of fatwas
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mufti 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | listed | — | 1 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 48K | listed | Mufti | 55 |
| IN India | 1,938 | 1 in 684K | 1.9K | Mufti | 37 |
| CN China | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 811K | — | Mufti | 4 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 25K | listed | — | — |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 154K | — | মুফতী | 29 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 155K | — | Mufti | 10 |
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. 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)
- Mehbooba Muftib. 1959INIndian politician and Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
- Huda El-Muftib. 1994EGEgyptian actress
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.9K | #3,217 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #24,518 |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Mufti come from?
- interpreter or expounder of Shari‘a (Islamic law) Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Mufti?
- A machine transcription gives /mˈufti/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- What does the name Mufti mean?
- In Indonesian, mufti (Muslim scholar)
- In which country does Mufti have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Mufti in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mufti?
- In India, the national register counted 1,938 people named Mufti, about 1 in 684 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/muftiThe 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, “Mufti”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.