Mukhtar
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The Chosen One (Arabic)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mʊxtɑːɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mukhtar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 4.1K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 5.8K
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 Mukhtar 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 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈52,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kyrgyzstan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 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)
The Chosen One (Arabic)
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mukhtar 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 | — | 747 | 1 in 445K | 1.1K | Mukhtar | 198 |
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)
Mukhtar is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
‘Preferred’. Muna & ‘Hope’ or ‘object of desire’. Mun‘im ¢ ‘Benefactor’, ‘donor’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
empowered; authorised
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In Arabic, selected, chosen, preferred, favourite. See Mufazzal J.aa. (mufaddal); Mustafa (gab.eo.. Umar al- Mukhtar (1858-1931): Libyan resistance leader
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, selected, chosen, preferred, favourite, the most exquisite
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In English, A minor official—usually overseeing a village or town—in many Arab countries and (historical) in the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, including Turkey, Northern Cyprus, and formerly Albania.
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)
- Mukhtar Hajiyevb. 1876AZSoviet politician
- Mukhtar Ahmed Ansarib. 1880INformer president of the Indian National Congress (1880–1936)
- Mukhtar Auezovb. 1897RUKazakh writer (1897–1961)
- Mukhtar Huseynzadeb. 1900AZAzerbaijani turkologist
- Mukhtar Ablyazovb. 1963KZKazakh politician and businessman, leader of the opposition movement Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan
- Mukhtar Ansarib. 1963INIndian politician
- Mukhtar Sa'ad Shihatab. 1974EGEgyptian writer
- Sulley Muntarib. 1984GHnot in their usual nameGhanaian footballer (born 1984)
- Mukhtar AjelogbonNGNigerian Journalist, Radio & TV host, Publisher, Blogger, Editor, Ewi exponent, Cooperate Jingle & Documentary Expert, Event planner and Professional MC.
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 54 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,203 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 719 | #32,079 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 364 | #53,299 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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)
- 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
- What does the name Mukhtar mean, and where does it come from?
- The Chosen One (Arabic) Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Mukhtar?
- In the etymology graph, Muhtar and Muntari are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Mukhtar?
- A machine transcription gives /mʊxtɑːɹ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Mukhtar a male or female name?
- Mukhtar 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 Mukhtar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Mukhtar in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mukhtar.
- How common is the name Mukhtar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 747 people named Mukhtar in 2020, about 1 in 445 thousand residents.
- How common is Mukhtar compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Mukhtar is the 792nd most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mukhtarThe 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, “Mukhtar” — the 792nd most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.