Asad

given name · Urdu · Latin script

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

Asad is a given name, most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is the 46th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Urdu and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: lion.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan1 in 2.1K◐
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 3.1K
  • BDBangladesh1 in 4.1K

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

≈5.4K ●

across 6 countries

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
219 ●

134K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 15K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

AsadLatin · Urdu●104K records
АсадCyrillic · Russian●5.4K records
ᲐსადGeorgian · Georgian●258 records
আসাদBengali · Bangla●167 records
อาซาดThai · Thai●41 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Асад in RU Russia, UZ Uzbekistan, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 more, Asadi in IR Iran, AU Australia, SE Sweden and 1 more and Ასად in GE Georgia.

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●

lion

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Asad is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#4686,68812K rec.—listedAsad131
IN India—86,30645K rec.—630Asad126
BD Bangladesh#36070,0964.3K rec.—listedAsad81
IR Iran—25,1423.5K rec.——Asadi70
RU Russia—6,3066.4K rec.—#963Асад94
GB United Kingdom—4,6122.5K rec.—4Asad102
SA Saudi Arabia#2684,0521.5K rec.——Asad88
SY Syria—3,1147.7K rec.——Asad24
US United States—3,10421K rec.1 in 107K3.1KAsad219
AE United Arab Emirates#1602,2962.5K rec.——Asad100
UZ Uzbekistan—1,884345 rec.—listedАсад25
FR France—1,7442K rec.—44Asad114

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

Languages●

  • Urdu104K25%
  • English103K25%
  • Bangla74K18%
  • Hindi55K13%
  • Arabic16K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Urdu104,45525%
English103,00825%
Bangla74,12518%
Hindi55,05013%
Arabic16,2244%

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◐

Asad is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name130K records spelled Asad27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, United States, India, Pakistan

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written As'Ad, Asa'D, Aşad, Áśâd, Áśád

  • a separate given name21K records spelled Asad9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Ethiopia

    Also written Äsäd, As'Ad, Ăsad, Asàd, As’ad

  • Turkish given name2.9K records spelled Asad7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen

    Also written Aşad, Ąśaď, Asåd

  • Persian given name1.8K records spelled Asad10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Iran, Sweden, India

    Languages: Persian, Tajik

    Also written Асад, Ãsâd, As'Ad, Ãsãd, Асъад

  • Finnish given name1.2K records spelled Asad5 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Asa'D, Ásäd

  • Polish given name841 records spelled Asad2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written As'Ad

46 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●

Asad 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, lion; strong

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • León

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

  • In Arabic, lion. Comp. As‘ad ai, happier. See Haidar js... Asad ibn Haashim: an ancestor of Muhammad (s).”*

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • In Spanish, second-person plural imperative of asar

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

  • In Scottish Gaelic, second-person singular of à: from you

    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.

Over time●

010020030040019201940196019802000371 · 1992

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Asad in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1918–2015
Yearrecords
19181
19192
19201
19231
19242
19255
19261
19281
19291
19304
19327
19333
19346
19351
19363
19373
19382
193916
19408
19418
19427
19435
194417
19457
194617
194713
194819
194935
195022
195120
195237
195340
195427
195541
195638
195743
195840
195972
196055
196162
196283
196367
196488
196578
1966116
1967157
1968116
1969139
1970161
1971132
1972201
1973162
1974161
1975157
1976257
1977169
1978193
1979183
1980193
1981194
1982303
1983270
1984296
1985315
1986227
1987292
1988276
1989309
1990313
1991330
1992371
1993368
1994344
1995316
1996153
1997158
1998132
199914
200820
201010
20115
20125
20134
201445
201527

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 85 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Asad Rustum, b. 1897Asad Haydar, b. 1908Asad Gulzoda, b. 1935Asad Chowdhury, b. 1943Asad Rauf, b. 1956Asad Schwarz, b. 1963Asad Qaiser, b. 1969Karim Ahmad Khan, b. 1970Asad Shafiq, b. 1986Assad Vala, b. 1987

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 77 sources across 39 countries.

Official registers attesting Asad
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.1K#5,472
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202K#14,129
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.4K#19,105
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000858#26,694
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—694#2,191
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—666#2,096
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—520—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—464#9,713
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—457#4,871
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—372#2,615
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020350—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—226#15,135

Reference works 5

  • 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)
  • 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 · 451 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Asad?
We estimate roughly 5.4 thousand people bear Asad (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Asad have the most bearers?
Asad is most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is most often spelled asad.
How common is Asad compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Asad is the 46th most common given name of 75,254 given names recorded there.
Is Asad a male or female name?
Asad 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 Asad mean?
Recorded meaning: lion
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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, “Asad” — the 46th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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