Akter

surname · Bangla · Latin script

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

Akter 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.

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

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Aktar in IN India, TR Türkiye, PK Pakistan.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Akter 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●

  • Bangla15M50%
  • English15M50%
  • Thai6.5K1%
  • Arabic4K1%
  • Spanish2.7K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Bangla14,672,91550%
English14,518,25350%
Thai6,5301%
Arabic3,9641%
Spanish2,7091%

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◐

Akter is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Thai surname6.7K records spelled Akter8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Pakistan, India, United States

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Akhtar, อัคทาร์, อคทาร, Äktėr

  • Hindi surname2.3K records spelled Akter3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Malaysia, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Àktêr

  • Turkish surname1.1K records spelled Akter6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Àktêr, Ãkțêŕ, Âktêr, Äktėr

  • Danish surname810 records spelled Akter6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

    Also written Äktéŕ

38 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●

Akter 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 Swedish, stern (the rear part or after end of a ship or vessel)

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

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, indefinite plural of akt

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

  • In Serbo-Croatian, participant

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

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●

1980199020002010Nipun Akter, b. 1984Salma Akter, b. 1991Shirin Akter, b. 1994Sharmin Akter, b. 1995Nahida Akter, b. 2000Rasma Akter, b. 2000Urmi Akter, b. 2003Marufa Akter, b. 2005Shorna Akter, b. 2007

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 28 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Akter
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020205.9K#5,667
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.3K#13,316
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—953#4,606
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—953#4,604
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—626#1,551
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000529#39,176
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—495#6,949
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—306#1,544
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—238#3,135
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—175#5,741
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026168—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—168#19,254

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 37 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Akter?
We estimate roughly 6.1 thousand people bear Akter (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Akter have the most bearers?
Akter is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled akter.
How common is Akter compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Akter is the most common surname of 11,292 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Akter” — the most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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