Nazir
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The custodian of a waqf, or Islamic endowment
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nɑːzɪə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nazir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 5.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 26K
- USUnited States1 in 118K
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 Nazir 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)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 243 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈44,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, 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 Назир in RU Russia.
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)
from a variant of Arabic nadhir ‘warner’. Al-NadhTr ‘the Warner’ is an epithet of the Prophet Muhammad, in the sense ‘one sent by Allah to warn mankind’ (Qur’an 7:188).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nazir is read(measured from records)
Nazir is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi23%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nazir in Hindi.
- Urdu20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nazir in Urdu.
- Turkish12%
Benzer, eş, örnek.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- English9.9%
The custodian of a waqf, or Islamic endowment.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nazir 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 | #185 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | listed | Nazir | 120 |
| AF Afghanistan | #462 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Nazir | 12 |
| BD Bangladesh | #762 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | Nazir | 53 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Nazir | 32 |
| RU Russia | #928 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 31K | #338 | Назир | 124 |
| US United States | — | 2,823 | 1 in 118K | 2.8K | Nazir | 243 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #705 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Nazir | 77 |
| BH Bahrain | #245 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Nazir | 19 |
| GY Guyana | #580 | 156 | 1 in 4.8K | 156 | Nazir | 3 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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)
Nazir 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.
from a variant of Arabic nadhir ‘warner’. Al-NadhTr ‘the Warner’ is an epithet of the Prophet Muhammad, in the sense ‘one sent by Allah to warn mankind’ (Qur’an 7:188).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Arabic, equal, peer, comparable. Comp. Naazir els (naadir), bright; Nazeer js: (nadheer), warner
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, precedent; alike; equal to
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, bright, radiant, blooming
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)
- Nazir Ahmad Dehlvib. 1831INIndian writer
- Pope Shenouda III of Alexandriab. 1923EGnot in their usual name117th pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church (1923–2012)
- Nazir Rajputb. 1931PKbadminton player
- Nazir Najib. 1942PKPakistani journalist
- Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmedb. 1957GBBritish politician (born 1957)
- Nazir Afzalb. 1962GBBritish lawyer
- Nazir Ahmad Lawayb. 1963INIndian politician
- Nazir Ayyadb. 1974EGGrand Mufti of Egypt
- Mohammed Nazir Bin Lepb. 1976MYMalaysian terrorism suspect held by the U.S. (born 1976)
- Nazir Jaserb. 1989SYSyrian bicycle racer
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 81 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #21,062 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 992 | #25,037 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 596 | #35,666 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- Where does the name Nazir come from?
- from a variant of Arabic nadhir ‘warner’. Al-NadhTr ‘the Warner’ is an epithet of the Prophet Muhammad, in the sense ‘one sent by Allah to warn mankind’ (Qur’an 7:188). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Nazir?
- A machine transcription gives /nɑːzɪə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Nazir mean?
- In English, The custodian of a waqf, or Islamic endowment.
- Is Nazir a male or female name?
- Nazir 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 Nazir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named Nazir in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nazir.
- How common is the name Nazir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,823 people named Nazir in 2020, about 1 in 118 thousand residents.
- How common is Nazir compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Nazir is the 185th 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/nazirThe 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, “Nazir” — the 185th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.