Mushtaq
given name · Latin script
Meaning: longing, eager, desirous
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈməʃtæk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mushtaq is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 37th most common given name.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 572K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈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 Mushtaq 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 218 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈81,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mustaq in BD Bangladesh, GY Guyana.
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)
longing, eager, desirous
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mushtaq 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #37 | ≈81,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 8 | Mushtaq | 121 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Mushtaq | 7 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Mustaq | 25 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 646K | — | Mushtaq | 7 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Mushtaq | 5 |
| US United States | — | 582 | 1 in 572K | 844 | Mushtaq | 218 |
| GY Guyana | — | 14as Mustaq | 1 in 54K | 14 | Mustaq | 1 |
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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Mushtaq 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.
desirous; hopeful
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Ardently
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
MYALL
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Arabic, longing, desiring, eager
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)
- Mushtaq Khanb. 1961BDeconomist
- Mushtaq Ahmad Khanb. 1974PKpolitician in Pakistan
- Mushtaq Talib Al-Saeedib. 1980IQIraqi militant commander (1980–2024)
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 48 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 844 | #29,761 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 514 | #42,237 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 286 | #64,934 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 8 | #99 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Is Mushtaq a male or female name?
- Mushtaq 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.
- What does the name Mushtaq mean, and where does it come from?
- longing, eager, desirous Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Mushtaq?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈməʃtæk/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- In which country does Mushtaq have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 81 thousand people named Mushtaq in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mushtaq.
- How common is the name Mushtaq?
- In the United States, the national register counted 582 people named Mushtaq in 2020, about 1 in 572 thousand residents.
- How common is Mushtaq compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Mushtaq is the 37th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mushtaqThe 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, “Mushtaq” — the 37th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.