Zakir
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Zikreden, anan (TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary))
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 30 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/zakˈɪr/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Zakir is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Bangladesh it is the 27th most common given name. Zakir is also written Закир in Cyrillic, জাকির in Bengali and ଜାକିର in Odia.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 2.3K
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 3K
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 Zakir 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)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 named Jakir, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Zakir in other scripts: Latin, Cyrillic, Bengali and 2 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Jakir in IN India, BD Bangladesh, OM Oman and Закир in KG Kyrgyzstan, UZ Uzbekistan.
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.
How to pronounce Zakir
- Turkish:/zakˈɪr/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Bangla:/d͡ʑakir/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Zikreden, anan.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zakir 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 | #642 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | 373 | Jakir | 138 |
| BD Bangladesh | #27 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Jakir | 108 |
| PK Pakistan | #488 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | listed | Zakir | 64 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #762 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Закир | 16 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #192 | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 253 | Zakir | 39 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #462 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Закир | 14 |
| OM Oman | #66 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Jakir | 2 |
| US United States | — | 869 | 1 in 383K | 859 | Zakir | 154 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)Zakir 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.
In Arabic, remembrance
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
one who remembers;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In Arabic, one who glorifies or eulogises Allah. USE es Peles Orbs aang lier thay Kole | SIG rath 2S ie dl Al geeSiall, "..men who remember Allah much and women who remember, Allah has prepared for them maghfira (forgiveness) and a vast reward." (surat al- Ahzaab 33:35). Zakir Husain‘! (1897-1969): Vice-President of India (1962-67)
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)- Zokir Almatovb. 1949UZnot in their usual nameUzbekistani politician
- Zakir Hussainb. 1951INIndian tabla player, musical producer, film actor, and composer (1951–2024)
- Zakir Hasanovb. 1959AZMinister of Defense of the Republic of Azerbaijan since 2013 (born 1959)
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)60 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 30 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Zakir?
- It depends on the language: in Turkish /zakˈɪr/; in Bangla /d͡ʑakir/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Zakir a male or female name?
- Zakir is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: India (India Names Dataset), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice) and Norway (SSB), among others.
- What does the name Zakir mean?
- Recorded meaning: Zikreden, anan.
- Which countries have the most people named Zakir?
- Mondonomo estimates about 167 thousand people named Jakir in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Bangladesh, Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Zakir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 869 people named Zakir in 2020, about 1 in 383 thousand residents.
- How common is Zakir compared with other names?
- In India, Zakir is the 642nd most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zakirThe 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, “Zakir” — ranked 11454th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.