Sufian
given name · Latin script
Meaning: windy, ships
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries
/sufian/(machine-generated) Malay · model-generated
Sufian is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- JOJordan≈1 in 6.5Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 14K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 17Kfew records
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 Sufian 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 named Sufiyan, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jordan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sufiyan in IN India, PK Pakistan, ID Indonesia.
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)windy, ships
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sufian 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 43 | Sufiyan | 110 |
| BD Bangladesh | #891 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Sufian | 66 |
| PK Pakistan | #471 | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 1 | Sufiyan | 42 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Sufian | 39 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Sufiyan | 35 |
| JO Jordan | #900 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Sufian | 46 |
| ES Spain | — | 694 | 1 in 72K | 694 | Sufian | 26 |
| LY Libya | #677 | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Sufian | 25 |
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; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)Sufian 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, ship builder; Abu Sufian was a companion of the Prophet Muhammad
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)- Abu Bakar Sufianb. 1953MYbadminton 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)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)42 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 39 | #53,600 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 39 | #52,638 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 10 | #17,648 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Is Sufian a male or female name?
- Sufian is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Spain (INE), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Norway (SSB).
- How do you pronounce Sufian?
- It depends on the language: in Malay /sufian/; in Indonesian /sufian/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Sufian mean, and where does it come from?
- windy, ships Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- In which country does Sufian have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Sufiyan in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sufian?
- In Spain, the national register counted 694 people named Sufian, about 1 in 72 thousand residents.
- How common is Sufian compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Sufian is the 471st most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sufian?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sufianThe 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, “Sufian” — the 471st most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.