Wajid
given name · Latin script
Meaning: much, many; distinguished
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wajid is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 4.7K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
much, many; distinguished
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wajid 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 | #140 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 1 | Wajid | 103 |
| CN China | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 447K | — | Wajid | 5 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Wajid | 2 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 278K | — | Wajid | 38 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 212K | — | Wajid | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 137K | 255 | Wajid | 56 |
| US United States | — | 260 | 1 in 1.3M | 263 | Wajid | 95 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Wajid | 15 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 212K | 78 | — | 4 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Wajid is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
TM finder, inventor;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In Arabic, finder, lover. Al-Waajid 1214!!, the
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, finder, lover
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)
- Wajid Khanb. 1946CACanadian politician
- Wajid Ali Chaudhryb. 1981PKbadminton player
- Wajid Ali Khanresearcher in particle physics
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 34 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 263 | #78,395 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 255 | #18,237 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 147 | #118,185 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 54 | #24,577 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 1 | #1,037 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 Wajid mean, and where does it come from?
- much, many; distinguished Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- Is Wajid a male or female name?
- Wajid is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Wajid have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 120 thousand people named Wajid in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wajid.
- How common is the name Wajid?
- In the United States, the national register counted 260 people named Wajid in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Wajid compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Wajid is the 140th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wajidThe 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, “Wajid” — the 140th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.