Wazir
given name · Latin script
Meaning: minister, grand vizier, prime minister, or advisor of the amir
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wɑˈzɪɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wazir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
- GYGuyana1 in 5.1K
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
- 116 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
minister, grand vizier, prime minister, or advisor of the amir
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wazir 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 | #158 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 1 | Wazir | 74 |
| AF Afghanistan | #628 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 6K | 1 | Wazir | 14 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 178K | — | Wazir | 8 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Wazir | 2 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Wazir | 14 |
| US United States | — | 260 | 1 in 1.3M | 265 | Wazir | 116 |
| GY Guyana | #468 | 146 | 1 in 5.1K | 146 | Wazir | 4 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Wazir | 1 |
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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Wazir is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, vizier; advisor, minister
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
one who bears a
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In Arabic, minister, vizier, adviser or counselor to the king
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Malay, vizier, vicegerent, viceroy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, prime minister
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Khalil al-Wazirb. 1935ILPalestinian military leader, founder of Fatah (1935–1988)
- Intissar al-Wazirb. 1941PSPalestinian politician
- Ali Wazirb. 1976PKPakistani politician and human rights activist
- Arif Wazirb. 1982PKPakistani politician and human rights activist
- Safiya Wazirb. 1991AFCommunity activist - first Afghan refugee to be elected as a state representative in New Hampshire, United States.
- Shahnaz Wazir AliPKPakistani politician
- Merwann Abboud-WazirFRFrench novelist
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)
Attested in 40 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 265 | #77,921 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 176 | #102,197 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 106 | #143,847 |
| AF Afghanistan | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #283 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 1 | #1,046 |
| 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)
- 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
- What does the name Wazir mean, and where does it come from?
- minister, grand vizier, prime minister, or advisor of the amir Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Wazir?
- A machine transcription gives /wɑˈzɪɹ/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- Is Wazir a male or female name?
- Wazir 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 Wazir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Wazir in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wazir.
- Where is Wazir most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wazir is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 5.1 thousand people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wazir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 260 people named Wazir in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Wazir compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Wazir is the 158th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wazirThe 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, “Wazir” — the 158th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.