Azeem
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Defensor, refiriéndose a una de las noventa y nueve cualidades de Dios
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 27 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Azeem is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 11K
- EGEgypt≈1 in 81K
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)
- Record sources
- 207 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Defensor, refiriéndose a una de las noventa y nueve cualidades de Dios
Cited for this meaning 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Azeem 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 | #107 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 4 | Azeem | 119 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #493 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Azeem | 50 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Azeem | 20 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #287 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Azeem | 63 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Azeem | 54 |
| US United States | — | 602 | 1 in 553K | 878 | Azeem | 207 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Azeem | 5 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Azeem | 11 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Iqbal Azeemb. 1913INUrdu poet
- Neelima Azeemb. 1959INIndian actress
- Asiya AzeemPKPakistani politician
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)Evidence
(measured from records)52 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 878 | #28,830 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 602 | #37,076 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 287 | #64,750 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 4 | #182 |
| 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
- 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 Azeem mean?
- Recorded meaning: Defensor, refiriéndose a una de las noventa y nueve cualidades de Dios
- In which country does Azeem have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 126 thousand people named Azeem in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled azeem.
- How common is the name Azeem?
- In the United States, the national register counted 602 people named Azeem in 2010, about 1 in 553 thousand residents.
- How common is Azeem compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Azeem is the 107th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/azeemThe 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, “Azeem” — the 107th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.