Waheed
surname · Latin script
Meaning: unique
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Waheed is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 91st most common surname.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 4.6K
- EGEgypt≈1 in 5.2K
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
- 174 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
unique
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Waheed 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 | #91 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 3 | Waheed | 122 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | listed | Waheed | 32 |
| EG Egypt | #383 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | listed | Waheed | 88 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #363 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | — | Waheed | 75 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Waheed | 21 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #758 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Waheed | 35 |
| US United States | — | 1,279 | 1 in 260K | 1.7K | Waheed | 174 |
| BH Bahrain | #257 | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Waheed | 21 |
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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Waheed Ijaduadeb. 1968NGNigerian actor
- Hajra Waheedb. 1980CAArtist (born 1980)
- Ali Waheedb. 1984MVpolitician
- Zarinah Waheedb. 2000MYMalaysian zoologist
- Yasir Waheedb. 2000PKresearcher
- Nayyirah Waheedpoet and author
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,190 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,687 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 735 | #30,091 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 3 | #291 |
| US United States | wru 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
- 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 Waheed mean, and where does it come from?
- unique Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- What are other forms of the name Waheed?
- In the etymology graph, Wahid is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Waheed have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 163 thousand people named Waheed in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled waheed.
- How common is the name Waheed?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,279 people named Waheed in 2010, about 1 in 260 thousand residents.
- How common is Waheed compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Waheed is the 91st 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/waheedThe 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, “Waheed” — the 91st most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.