Murâd
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Murâd is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Azerbaijan it is the 46th most common given name. Recorded meaning: from a personal name based on Arabic murad ‘will’, ‘purpose’, ‘wish’. This was the name of a son of the 16th-century Mughal emperor Akbar.
- DKDenmark1 in 68K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 87K
- FIFinland1 in 111K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 88 (measured from records)
- 1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
1,768 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Murad in AZ Azerbaijan, US United States.
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)
from a personal name based on Arabic murad ‘will’, ‘purpose’, ‘wish’. This was the name of a son of the 16th-century Mughal emperor Akbar.
Sources 6
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Murâd 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,768 | 1 in 188K | 2.4K | Murad | 70 |
| PL Poland | — | 438 | 1 in 87K | 438 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 104 | 1 in 481K | 122 | — | 4 |
| DK Denmark | — | 86 | 1 in 68K | 189 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 50 | 1 in 111K | 111 | — | 1 |
| MD Moldova | — | 30 | 1 in 112K | 30 | — | 1 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #46 | — | — | 3.4K | Murad | 78 |
1,768 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); e-services.md — living population 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Murâd mean, and where does it come from?
- from a personal name based on Arabic murad ‘will’, ‘purpose’, ‘wish’. This was the name of a son of the 16th-century Mughal emperor Akbar. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Murâd have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Murâd, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled murad.
- Where is Murâd most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Murâd is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 68 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Murâd?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,768 people named Murâd in 2020, about 1 in 188 thousand residents.
- How common is Murâd compared with other names?
- In Azerbaijan, Murâd is the 46th most common given name of 28,848 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mur%C3%A2dThe 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, “Murâd” — the 46th most common given name in Azerbaijan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.