Ashraf

surname · Urdu · Latin script

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

Ashraf is a surname, most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is the 16th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Urdu and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: nobler, more honourable; comp.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan1 in 148◐
  • EGEgypt1 in 319
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 942

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

≈9.3K ●

across 8 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
272 ●

264K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 6.1K ◐

Norway

Spellings & scripts●

AshrafLatin · Urdu●348K records
আশরাফBengali · Bangla●196 records

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●

nobler, more honourable; comp. adj. of Sharif 2,2, noble. Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanvi (1864-1943): Indian scholar in the field of Islam and author of Beheshti Jewar

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Ashraf is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#16339,7237.1K rec.——Ashraf124
EG Egypt#8130,25862K rec.——Ashraf174
BD Bangladesh#29251,2964K rec.—listedAshraf106
GB United Kingdom—8,1093.7K rec.—3Ashraf108
SA Saudi Arabia#945,3813.9K rec.——Ashraf133
IN India—4,148111K rec.1 in 320K4.1KAshraf135
AE United Arab Emirates#393,7464.1K rec.——Ashraf122
MY Malaysia#9103,2683.7K rec.——Ashraf44
AR Argentina—2,574138 rec.—2Ashraf16
US United States—2,46836K rec.1 in 135K3.5KAshraf272
ES Spain—1,2391.7K rec.1 in 40K1.2KAshraf46
NO Norway—890△227 rec.1 in 6.1K890Ashraf30

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

Languages●

  • Urdu348K40%
  • Arabic192K22%
  • English80K9%
  • Bangla69K8%
  • Hindi64K7%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Urdu347,79040%
Arabic191,97322%
English80,4729%
Bangla68,9248%
Hindi64,1297%

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◐

Ashraf is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname212K records spelled Ashraf36 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, Dutch, Western Frisian

    Also written Ãshrãf, Äšhŕaf, Ashràf, Āšhråf, Ẵśhråf

  • a separate surname93K records spelled Ashraf3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Ashrāf, Ăshrăf

  • Indonesian surname21K records spelled Ashraf5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, India, Pakistan, Indonesia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Åshřąf, Ãśhřãf, Ặśĥřặf

  • French surname9.3K records spelled Ashraf12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Äshrāf, Aśhråf, Ashrâf, Ashràf, Ashråf

  • German surname4.7K records spelled Ashraf6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

    Also written Asȟrẩf, Ashrāf, Åšhrāf, Àśhŕáf, Ãşhřãf

  • Danish surname3.1K records spelled Ashraf11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

    Also written Äshråf, Åśhŗåf, Åshŕâf, Aŝĥŕåf, Âshråf

  • Turkish surname3.1K records spelled Ashraf18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Pakistan, Azerbaijan

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Əsrəf, Aşhřàf, Aşhràf, Åșĥrâf, Aŝhŕāf

  • Hindi given name3.0K records spelled Ashraf37 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla

    Also written Asraf, আসরাফ, Aşraf, আস্রাফ, Ашраф

55 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●

Ashraf 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, 3,2) (3,5) nobler, more honourable; comp. adj. of Sharif 2s 5

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • In Arabic, more honourable, most distinguished, eminent

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • In English, An unknown-gender given name from Arabic.

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

  • In Arabic, nobler; more honourable

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • In Arabic, more honorable; most noble

    as a nameAfrican Muslim 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●

0204060801920194019601980200063 · 1997

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Ashraf in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1918–2015
Yearrecords
19181
19241
19271
19291
19311
19331
19343
19351
19371
19381
19402
19413
19432
19444
19451
19461
19471
19488
194912
19504
19514
19528
19534
19548
19554
19565
19576
195810
195913
19604
19612
19628
19636
196415
19654
196610
196715
19686
196927
197010
19717
197221
197323
197416
197515
197614
197712
19788
19796
198016
198112
198221
198319
198416
198519
198614
198725
198825
198919
199016
199124
199228
199334
199434
199543
199647
199763
199846
199922
20083
20103
20121
20133
201411
20151

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 75 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●

17001800190020002100Ali Ashraf Naqqash Avshar, b. 1708Hamid Ashraf, b. 1946Naeem Ashraf, b. 1972Kamran Ashraf, b. 1973Sherif Ashraf, b. 1987Nadine Ashraf, b. 1993Salma Ashraf Mohamed, b. 1997Mennatallah Ashraf Said Mohamed, b. 2003

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 72 sources across 37 countries.

Official registers attesting Ashraf
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—4.1K#1,799
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.5K#4,489
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.4K#9,236
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.5K#12,548
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.6K#16,635
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.2K#3,670
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.2K#3,667
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—890#1,331
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—756#2,067
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020628#4,489
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025445—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020364—

Reference works 6

  • 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
  • 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 · 340 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ashraf?
We estimate roughly 9.3 thousand people bear Ashraf (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Ashraf have the most bearers?
Ashraf is most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is most often spelled ashraf.
How common is Ashraf compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Ashraf is the 16th most common surname of 47,691 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Ashraf mean?
Recorded meaning: nobler, more honourable; 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, “Ashraf” — the 16th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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