Zishan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: glorious; dignified (Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman)
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes
- Norway (SSB): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries
Zishan is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Zishan is also written Зишан in Cyrillic and জিশান in Bengali.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 59Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 91Kfew records
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 100Kfew records
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 Zishan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,600 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Zishan in other scripts: Cyrillic and Bengali
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)glorious; dignified
Cited for this meaning 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zishan 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 | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 152K | 1 | Zishan | 76 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Zishan | 27 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 91K | listed | Zishan | 25 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 105K | listed | Zishan | 13 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Zishan | 11 |
| US United States | 219 | 1 in 1.5M | 150 | Zishan | 68 |
| NO Norway | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 138K | 110 | Zishan | 5 |
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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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).
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zishan mean, and where does it come from?
- glorious; dignified Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- Is Zishan a male or female name?
- Zishan is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes; Norway (SSB): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- Which countries have the most people named Zishan?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.6 thousand people named Zishan in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zishan. After it come Bangladesh, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Zishan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 219 people named Zishan in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zishanThe 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, “Zishan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.