Nisar
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Nisar is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: to strew; to sacrifice.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway≈1 in 100K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 150Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)to strew; to sacrifice
Cited for this meaning 2
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nisar 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 | #113 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 5 | Nisar | 108 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Nisar | 12 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Nisar | 40 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Nisar | 20 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Nisar | 2 |
| US United States | — | 428 | 1 in 777K | 572 | Nisar | 116 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 100K | 130 | — | 8 |
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; 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)Nisar 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, to strew; to sacrifice
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)- Nisar Bazmib. 1925PKPakistani composer (1925–2007)
- Nisar Nasikb. 1943PKPakistani poet (1939-2019)
- Nisar Ahmad Juttb. 1975politician
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)44 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 572 | #41,101 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 460 | #46,314 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 258 | #70,679 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 130 | #12,123 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 5 | #165 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- 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
- What does the name Nisar mean, and where does it come from?
- to strew; to sacrifice Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Is Nisar a male or female name?
- Nisar is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: India (India Names Dataset), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Spain (INE).
- In which country does Nisar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 100 thousand people named Nisar in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nisar.
- How common is the name Nisar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 428 people named Nisar in 2020, about 1 in 777 thousand residents.
- How common is Nisar compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Nisar is the 113th 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/nisarThe 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, “Nisar” — the 113th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.