Siddiqi

surname · Latin script

Meaning: 'Descendant of TiddTq', an Arabic personal name meaning literally 'truthful, righteous'

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/siˈdiki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Siddiqi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 177K
  • AFAfghanistan≈1 in 2.5K

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)

≈21,000 people, est.

Sources
281 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Afghanistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

'Descendant of TiddTq', an Arabic personal name meaning literally 'truthful, righteous'.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Siddiqi 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.

Where Siddiqi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#448≈21,000 est.≈1 in 11K—Siddiqi74
AF Afghanistan#247≈14,000 est.≈1 in 2.5K—Siddiqi20
CN China—≈5,900 est.≈1 in 236K—Siddiqi4
SA Saudi Arabia#989≈1,900 est.≈1 in 18K—Siddiqi47
US United States—1,8841 in 177K2.6KSiddiqi281
AE United Arab Emirates#879≈560 est.≈1 in 18K—Siddiqi56
QA Qatar—≈100 est.≈1 in 24K—Siddiqi21

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 — 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Siddiqi is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Ṣiddiqī, Ṣiddīqī̤, Ṣiddīqī, Siddīqī, Ṣiddiqi

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Ṣiddīqī

  • Hindi surname91 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Saudi Arabia

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla

    Also written Siddiqui, Siddiki, সিদ্দিকী, Shiddiki, Siddikī

  • Persian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Afghanistan, Pakistan

    Also written Ṣiddīqī, Siddīqī

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Siddiqi 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, attributed to the first Khalifa Abu Baler Al-Siddiq (d. 634) through ancestry

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • In Arabic, nisba (relation) through ancestry to the

    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)

188019001920194019601980Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqi, b. 1892Kamal Siddiqi, b. 1901Mohammad Najatuallah Siddiqui, b. 1931Yasin Mazhar Siddiqi, b. 1944Asif Azam Siddiqi, b. 1966Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi, b. 1967

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)

FormalDear Siddiqi,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Siddiqi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.6K#11,394
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.9K#15,533
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.3K#19,285
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Siddiqi mean, and where does it come from?
'Descendant of TiddTq', an Arabic personal name meaning literally 'truthful, righteous'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Siddiqi?
A machine transcription gives /siˈdiki/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Siddiqi have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Siddiqi in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled siddiqi.
How common is the name Siddiqi?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,884 people named Siddiqi in 2010, about 1 in 177 thousand residents.
How common is Siddiqi compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Siddiqi is the 448th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Siddiqi” — the 448th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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