Musharraf
given name · Latin script
Meaning: exalted; honoured;
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məshɑɹɹəf/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Musharraf is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 73K(inferred from the name graph)
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 29K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 233K
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 Musharraf 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,600 named Mosharrof, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uzbekistan, 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 Mosharrof in BD Bangladesh, SG Singapore.
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)
exalted; honoured;
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Musharraf 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Mosharrof | 45 |
| PK Pakistan | #925 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 73K | listed | Musharraf | 42 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Musharraf | 3 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 233K | listed | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | — | Musharraf | 11 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 460K | — | Mosharrof | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 4 | 1 in 2.6M | 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Musharraf is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, honoured, exalted. Mir Musharraf Husayn (1848-1911): Bengali "novelist, playwright, essayist and poet."**
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, honoured, exalted
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)
- Musharraf Hussainb. 1958GBPakistani scholar
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 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2 | #73,952 |
Reference works 1
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Musharraf mean, and where does it come from?
- exalted; honoured; Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- How do you pronounce Musharraf?
- A machine transcription gives /məshɑɹɹəf/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Musharraf a male or female name?
- Musharraf 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 Musharraf have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.6 thousand people named Mosharrof in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Musharraf?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 4 people named Musharraf, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
- How common is Musharraf compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Musharraf is the 925th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Musharraf?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/musharrafThe 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, “Musharraf” — the 925th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.