Nayyar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Luminary, moon,
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈneɪˌjɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nayyar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 521K(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 629K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 45K
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
- 191 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Luminary, moon,
Sources 1
- Dictionary of Islamic Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nayyar 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 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 45K | listed | Nayyar | 65 |
| IN India | 2,107 | 1 in 629K | 2.1K | Nayyar | 155 |
| US United States | 639 | 1 in 521K | 872 | Nayyar | 191 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 240K | 433 | Nayyar | 67 |
| CA Canada | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 157K | — | Nayyar | 57 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 227K | — | Nayyar | 3 |
| NO Norway | 38 | 1 in 144K | 38 | Nayyar | 9 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)
Nayyar 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 English, Alternative form of Nair.
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)
- Deepak Nayyarb. 1946INIndian economist
- Hardev Pal Nayyarb. 1947INRecipient of Vir Chakra
- Adam Nayyarb. 1948PKPakistani anthropologist, author
- Kunal Nayyarb. 1981GBEnglish actor (born 1981)
- Sahil Nayyarb. 1993CACanadian snooker 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 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 2.2K | #402 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 2.1K | #3,021 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 872 | #28,982 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 639 | #35,246 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 433 | #12,695 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 325 | #58,397 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 38 | #30,658 |
| 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
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Nayyar mean, and where does it come from?
- Luminary, moon, Recorded by Dictionary of Islamic Names.
- How do you pronounce Nayyar?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈneɪˌjɑɹ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Nayyar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.2 thousand people named Nayyar in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nayyar.
- How common is the name Nayyar?
- In India, the national register counted 2,107 people named Nayyar, about 1 in 629 thousand residents.
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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, “Nayyar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.