Wadood
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Wadood is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: lover; warm-hearted, affectionate, friend, beloved.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 64Kfew records
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 180Kfew 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
- 52 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 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)lover; warm-hearted, affectionate, friend, beloved
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Where the surname Wadood is found
(measured from records)Wadood 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 | #521 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 1 | Wadood | 52 |
| LK Sri Lanka | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Wadood | 7 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | Wadood | 15 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Wadood | 23 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 720K | — | Wadood | 19 |
| US United States | — | 130 | 1 in 2.6M | 165 | Wadood | 50 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 170K | — | Wadood | 6 |
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)Wadood 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, lover; warm-hearted, affectionate, friend, beloved
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)- Ghazala Wadoodb. 1954PKbadminton player
- Tariq Wadoodb. 1957USbadminton 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)Evidence
(measured from records)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Wadood mean, and where does it come from?
- lover; warm-hearted, affectionate, friend, beloved Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Wadood?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Wadood in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wadood. After it come Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Egypt; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Wadood?
- In the United States, the national register counted 130 people named Wadood in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
- How common is Wadood compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Wadood is the 521st 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/wadoodThe 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, “Wadood” — ranked 1033rd in Pakistan (Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.