Nawab
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nawab is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 4.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- KMComoros≈1 in 25K
- GYGuyana1 in 250K
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
- 123 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈55,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nawab 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 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | 2 | Nawab | 72 |
| US United States | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 2M | 294 | — | 123 |
| IT Italy | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 595K | 7 | — | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 824K | 260 | — | 65 |
| KM Comoros | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 1 | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 474K | 28 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 9 | 1 in 652K | 9 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 3 | 1 in 250K | 3 | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 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 — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Etudiants du Monde provides statistics on name popularity in Comoros since 1995.; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Nawab 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, ruler, administrator. A title assumed by the independent rulers in the Indian sub-continent (see e.g. Siraj ud-Dawla). An honorific title awarded by the British rulers in India (see e.g. Abdul Latif). Nawabzada: son of a Nawab, e.g. Nawabzada Liaqat Ali Khan (see Liaqat)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In English, A Muslim official in South Asia acting as a provincial deputy ruler under the Mughal empire; a local governor.
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)
- Mudhafar Al-Nawabb. 1934IQIraqi poet
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 294 | #71,480 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 260 | #18,013 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 242 | #78,821 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 169 | #99,214 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 28 | #19,844 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 2 | #384 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- In which country does Nawab have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 55 thousand people named Nawab in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nawab.
- How common is the name Nawab?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 9 people named Nawab, about 1 in 652 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Nawab?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nawabThe 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, “Nawab”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.