Qadir
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘powerful, able’; variants include Kadiri, Kadri, Kaduri, Kaduli and Kadu
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kædiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Qadir is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 69th most common surname.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 3.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 24K
- USUnited States1 in 473K
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
- 204 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈68,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘powerful, able’; variants include Kadiri, Kadri, Kaduri, Kaduli and Kadu.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Qadir 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 | #69 | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 4 | Qadir | 111 |
| IQ Iraq | #216 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Qadir | 44 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Qadir | 9 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 163K | — | Qadir | 58 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #727 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Qadir | 42 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #401 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Qadir | 62 |
| US United States | — | 703 | 1 in 473K | 947 | Qadir | 204 |
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 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Qadir is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, capable
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, able, powerful, mighty. Al-Qadeer ..2/!, the Omnipotent: one of the names of Allah. os! yasd egt JS gle "Verily, over all things You have power." (sura Aal ‘Imraan 3:26). See Qaadir ,st3; Muqtadir ,sia
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, able, capable, powerful, mighty; one of the names of Allah
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Azerbaijani, mighty, powerful
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In crh, value, price
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)
- Maulana Abdul Qadirb. 1905PKPakistani islamic scholar and diplomat
- Ali Qadirb. 1973PKPakistani sociologist
- Arsalan Qadirb. 1989PKPakistani cricketer
- Iqbal F. QadirPKPakistani naval officer and diplomat
- Fayyaz Mahmood QadirGBresearcher
- Ihsan Qadirresearcher
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 42 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 947 | #27,027 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 703 | #32,676 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 445 | #45,308 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 4 | #204 |
| 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 Qadir mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘powerful, able’; variants include Kadiri, Kadri, Kaduri, Kaduli and Kadu. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Qadir?
- A machine transcription gives /kædiə/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- In which country does Qadir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 68 thousand people named Qadir in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled qadir.
- How common is the name Qadir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 703 people named Qadir in 2010, about 1 in 473 thousand residents.
- How common is Qadir compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Qadir is the 69th 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/qadirThe 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, “Qadir” — the 69th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.