Aktar

surname · Bangla · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Aktar is a surname, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the most common surname. It appears chiefly in Bangla and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A surname from Bengali.

rarermore common
  • BDBangladesh1 in 8◐
  • SESweden1 in 16K
  • MYMalaysia1 in 18K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈6.1K ●

across 14 countries

#31 ●

of 21M surnames

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
188 ●

95K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 11K ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

AkterLatin · Bangla●15M records
আক্তারBengali · Bangla●67K records

Locally spelled Akter in BD Bangladesh, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 12 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

A surname from Bengali.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Aktar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh#131,254,68965K rec.—listedAkter130
GB United Kingdom—4,1491.9K rec.——Akter73
MY Malaysia#9593,0861.8K rec.——Akter17
US United States—2,29113K rec.1 in 145K5.9KAkter188
TR Türkiye—1,9611.9K rec.——Aktar25
AU Australia—1,4361.8K rec.——Akter58
IT Italy—1,3521.6K rec.——Akter20
ES Spain—953△203 rec.1 in 52K953—24
IN India—8704K rec.1 in 1.5M870Aktar47
SE Sweden#4056261.8K rec.1 in 16K626Akter16
FI Finland—495△3 rec.1 in 11K495—8
DE Germany—482451 rec.——Akter50

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Bangla1.1M50%
  • English1M48%
  • Turkish15K1%
  • 12K1%
  • Hindi11K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Bangla1,055,71650%
English1,002,06948%
Turkish15,2651%
12,1851%
Hindi11,2481%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Aktar is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname52K records spelled Aktar5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United Kingdom, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Aktär, Aḵtar

  • a separate surname36K records spelled Aktar3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Türkiye, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Aḵṭar, Aḵtar

  • Turkish surname16K records spelled Aktar3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, India, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Aķtar

  • Thai surname1.8K records spelled Aktar3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, India, United Kingdom

  • Indonesian surname1.2K records spelled Aktar3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, Indonesia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Aḵtar

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Aktar 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 Maltese, comparative degree of ħafna: more

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Turkish, herbalist, seller of herbs

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, present indicative of akta

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, Present tense of akta.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Turkish, 1. Baharat veya güzel kokular satan kimse veya dükkân. 2. İğne, iplik, baharat, zarf, kâğıt, tütün vb. satılan dükkân. 3. Damlalar.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

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.

Over time●

05010015020019201940196019802000166 · 1991

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Aktar in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1920–2015
Yearrecords
19201
19211
19221
19231
19241
19261
19292
19312
19321
19333
19341
19354
19362
19372
19382
19393
19403
19414
19424
19434
19445
19456
194610
194715
19487
194917
195010
195110
195218
195314
195418
195517
195620
195725
195821
195929
196024
196133
196240
196335
196442
196545
196658
196742
196843
196966
197062
197151
197277
197370
197467
197580
197680
197760
197872
197966
198079
1981100
1982137
1983109
198497
1985124
1986122
1987121
1988137
1989122
1990136
1991166
1992152
1993143
1994119
199598
199637
199758
199827
19993
20001
20081
20102
20113
20124
20134
20146
20151

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 84 years between 1920–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Rasim Aktar, b. 1881Ayhan Aktar, b. 1953Cengiz Aktar, b. 1955Shamima Aktar, b. 1986Sonia Aktar, b. 1997

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 24 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Aktar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201K#24,949
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—870#6,105
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010547#40,082
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000196#88,083
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1991166—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1992152—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1993143—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1988137—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1982137—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1990136—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1985124—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1989122—

Reference works 3

  • 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)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 182 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Aktar?
We estimate roughly 6.1 thousand people bear Aktar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Aktar have the most bearers?
Aktar is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled akter.
How common is Aktar compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Aktar is the most common surname of 11,292 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Aktar mean?
Recorded meaning: A surname from Bengali.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Aktar” — the most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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