Arshàd
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Arshàd is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 32nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: most rightly guided; most reasonable.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 8.3K
- INIndia≈1 in 12K
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 Arshàd 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 278 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Arshad in IN India, PK Pakistan, US United States and 3 more.
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)most rightly guided; most reasonable
Cited for this meaning 3
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Arshàd 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 | #32 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 16 | Arshad | 157 |
| IN India | — | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 987 | Arshad | 175 |
| BD Bangladesh | #574 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | listed | Arshad | 67 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Arshad | 50 |
| MY Malaysia | #925 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Arshad | 76 |
| US United States | — | 1,266 | 1 in 263K | 2.4K | Arshad | 278 |
| GY Guyana | — | 49 | 1 in 15K | 49 | — | 3 |
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; 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; 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Arshàd mean, and where does it come from?
- most rightly guided; most reasonable Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and A Dictionary of Muslim Names and 1 other source.
- Is Arshàd a male or female name?
- Arshàd 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Arshàd?
- Mondonomo estimates about 148 thousand people named Arshàd in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arshad. After it come India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Arshàd?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,266 people named Arshàd in 2020, about 1 in 263 thousand residents.
- How common is Arshàd compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Arshàd is the 32nd 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/arsh%C3%A0dThe 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, “Arshàd” — the 32nd most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.