Muhtar
given name · Latin script
Meaning: mukhtar, an appointed village headman
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/muht̪aɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Muhtar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 46K(inferred from the name graph)
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 1.7Kas Мухтар
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 3Kas Mukhtar
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 Muhtar 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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 198 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈52,000 named Mukhtar, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Turkmenistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mukhtar in PK Pakistan, NG Nigeria, US United States and 1 more, Мухтар in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and Мухтор in 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(measured from records)
mukhtar, an appointed village headman
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Muhtar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #792 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Mukhtar | 71 |
| PK Pakistan | #118 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | listed | Mukhtar | 98 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #247 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 7.6K | Мухтар | 44 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 46K | listed | Mukhtar | 108 |
| RU Russia | #605 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 26K | #290 | Мухтар | 118 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #585 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Мухтар | 10 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #733 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | listed | Мухтор | 4 |
| US United States | — | 747as Mukhtar | 1 in 445K | 1.1K | Mukhtar | 198 |
| TM Turkmenistan | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Muhtar | 4 |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence; 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)
Muhtar is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Seçilmiş, seçkin. 2. Davranışlarında özgür olan, dilediğini yapan. 3. Köy ya da mahalle işlerine bakmak için halkın seçtiği kimse.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In English, Alternative form of mukhtar: an appointed village headman, particularly in Ottoman contexts.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Albanian, synonym of myftar: a mukhtar, particularly (historical) in Albanian contexts.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In crh, autonomous
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Muhtar Mollaoğlub. 1870TRTurkish diplomat and statesperson (1870–1934)
- Akil Muhtar Özdenb. 1878TRTurkish physician and statesperson (1878–1949)
- Muhtar Ertanb. 1912TRTurkish statesperson (1912–1951)
- Muhtar Başoğlub. 1913TRTurkish herpetologist (1913–1981)
- Muhtar Körükçüb. 1915TRTurkish poet and writer (1915–1985)
- Muhtar Tucaltanb. 1918TRTurkish association football player (1918–2002)
- Mukhtar Shakhanovb. 1942KZKazakhstani writer (1942-2026)
- Cem Karacab. 1945TRnot in their usual nameTurkish singer-songwriter (1945–2004)
- Muhtar Kentb. 1952TRTurkish-American businessperson (born 1952)
- Muhtar Suhailib. 1981MYchief executive 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)
Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Muhtar mean, and where does it come from?
- mukhtar, an appointed village headman Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Muhtar?
- In the etymology graph, Mukhtar is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Muhtar?
- A machine transcription gives /muht̪aɾ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Muhtar a male or female name?
- Muhtar 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.
- In which country does Muhtar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Mukhtar in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Muhtar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 747 people named Mukhtar in 2020, about 1 in 445 thousand residents.
- How common is Muhtar compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Muhtar is the 792nd most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Muhtar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/muhtarThe 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, “Muhtar” — the 792nd most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.