Naqi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: pure, clean. Ali ibn Muhammad Naqi (827- 868): the tenth Imam of the Shi‘ites.7™
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nəki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Naqi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 24K(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 55K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 870K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
pure, clean. Ali ibn Muhammad Naqi (827- 868): the tenth Imam of the Shi‘ites.7™
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Naqi 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 | #789 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 24K | listed | Naqi | 55 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Naqi | 1 |
| US United States | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | 5 | Naqi | 28 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 990K | — | Naqi | 9 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 870K | — | Naqi | 3 |
| IN India | — | 23 | 1 in 58M | 23 | Naqi | 28 |
| BE Belgium | — | 10 | 1 in 1.2M | 10 | — | — |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Naqi is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, pure, clean
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)
- Naqi Mohsinb. 1937PKbadminton player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 87 | #205 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 23 | #71,665 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 10 | #71,016 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 10 | #17,648 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Naqi mean, and where does it come from?
- pure, clean. Ali ibn Muhammad Naqi (827- 868): the tenth Imam of the Shi‘ites.7™ Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Naqi?
- A machine transcription gives /nəki/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- In which country does Naqi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.9 thousand people named Naqi in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled naqi.
- How common is the name Naqi?
- In India, the national register counted 23 people named Naqi, about 1 in 58 million residents.
- How common is Naqi compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Naqi is the 789th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/naqiThe 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, “Naqi” — the 789th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.