Amjad

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Amjad is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Pakistan it is the 36th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Urdu, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: more glorious, more distinguished; comp.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan1 in 1.7K◐
  • INIndia1 in 12K
  • SYSyria1 in 17K

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

≈5.0K ●

across 8 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
190 ●

130K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 12K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

AmjadLatin · Hindi●161K records
আমজাদBengali · Bangla●561 records
อำจาดThai · Thai●8 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Amzad in BD Bangladesh, SA Saudi Arabia, AE United Arab Emirates and 3 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●

more glorious, more distinguished; comp. adj. of Maajid sats, glorious. Comp. Amjaad sta.i, glories. Amjad Ali: ruler of Oudh (India) (1842-7).**

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Amjad is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—264,82282K rec.—154Amjad109
PK Pakistan#36111,9977.6K rec.——Amjad111
GB United Kingdom—5,4913.9K rec.—listedAmjad95
BD Bangladesh#4862,5482.4K rec.—listedAmzad63
SY Syria—1,9152.1K rec.——Amjad25
US United States—1,83221K rec.1 in 182K1.8KAmjad190
MY Malaysia—1,552901 rec.——Amjad26
FR France—1,530△2 rec.1 in 44K1.5K—1
DE Germany—1,3571.5K rec.—1Amjad90
AU Australia—8901.4K rec.——Amjad70
CA Canada—841958 rec.—2Amjad63
ES Spain—703869 rec.1 in 71K703Amjad38

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

Languages●

  • Hindi161K32%
  • Urdu160K32%
  • 48K10%
  • English32K6%
  • Arabic32K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi160,59832%
Urdu160,14232%
48,48310%
English32,4916%
Arabic31,6726%

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◐

Amjad is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name11K records spelled Amjad11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Amjàd, Ámjad, Åmjãd, Ãmjãd, Ämjâd

  • Spanish given name7.4K records spelled Amjad4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, India, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ãmĵad, Àmjad

  • Indonesian given name4.7K records spelled Amjad4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Indonesia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Ãmjäd, Àmjad

  • Persian given name2.5K records spelled Amjad5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Türkiye

    Languages: Persian, Pashto

    Also written Åmjâd, Amjâd, Ämjäd

  • Danish given name1.6K records spelled Amjad10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, India

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Åmjãd, Âmjäd, Amjãd, Åmjäď, Åmjäd

  • Italian given name1.4K records spelled Amjad4 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Àmjãd, Ámjåd, Åmjãd

  • Turkish given name1.3K records spelled Amjad4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, India, Pakistan

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Àmjàd, Àmjàď

44 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●

Amjad 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 Arabic, most glorious, most distinguished, more illustrious, most venerable, most noble

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • In Arabic, plural of Majd; glory, honour

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • a‫‏‬ glorious; noble

    as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

  • El más glorioso

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • More glorious,

    as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names

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●

05001K1.5K2K192019401960198020002K · 1984

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Amjad in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1914–2015
Yearrecords
19141
19152
19171
19181
192013
19216
19224
19239
19244
19257
19262
19274
19286
192915
19306
19317
193219
193311
193421
193515
193619
193726
193824
193932
194033
194143
194250
194344
194458
194548
194660
194777
194869
194988
195071
195171
1952106
195359
1954108
195579
195699
1957131
1958124
1959160
1960107
1961121
1962149
1963118
1964176
1965167
1966184
1967220
1968210
1969251
1970270
1971309
1972366
1973386
1974501
1975515
1976751
1977769
1978956
1979952
19801,010
19811,309
19821,759
19831,911
19841,990
19851,972
19861,504
19871,665
19881,514
19891,578
19901,482
19911,560
19921,622
19931,768
19941,347
19951,207
1996598
1997589
1998375
199928
20011
200889
20091
201062
20114
20123
201314
2014236
201561

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 93 years between 1914–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000Amjad Ali Shah, b. 1801Amjad Hyderabadi, b. 1888Amjad Ali, b. 1907Amjad Khan, b. 1940Amjad Ali Khan, b. 1945Amjad Bashir, b. 1952Amjad Khan, b. 1980Amjad Kalaf, b. 1991Amjad Al-Harthi, b. 1994

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 66 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Amjad
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—8.2K#662
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.8K#7,846
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241.5K#394
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020902#28,173
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—703#3,640
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—608#2,412
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010602#37,076
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—582#1,891
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—454#8,675
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—454#8,656
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020442—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—440#2,742

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 358 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Amjad?
We estimate roughly 5.0 thousand people bear Amjad (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Amjad have the most bearers?
Amjad is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled amjad.
How common is Amjad compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Amjad is the 36th most common given name of 75,254 given names recorded there.
Is Amjad a male or female name?
Amjad 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.
What does the name Amjad mean?
Recorded meaning: more glorious, more distinguished; comp.
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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, “Amjad” — the 36th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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