Asif

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Asif is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Pakistan it is the 16th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: the aquatic.

rarermore common
  • BDBangladesh1 in 708◐
  • AZAzerbaijan1 in 996
  • PKPakistan1 in 1.1K

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

≈4.3K ●

across 6 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
259 ●

414K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.2K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

AsifLatin · Hindi●365K records
АсифCyrillic · Russian●13K records
আসিফBengali · Bangla●389 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Асиф in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and Асіф in UA Ukraine.

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●

the aquatic.

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Asif is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#659611,175280K rec.—701Asif187
BD Bangladesh#67401,1548K rec.—listedAsif125
PK Pakistan#16165,92320K rec.—listedAsif135
GB United Kingdom—13,26010K rec.—4Asif152
RU Russia—12,56713K rec.—#1,879Асиф101
SA Saudi Arabia#1497,1263K rec.——Asif80
AZ Azerbaijan#1134,4311.5K rec.—309Asif49
AE United Arab Emirates#823,6454.6K rec.——Asif115
KG Kyrgyzstan#10003,22618 rec.——Asif7
US United States—2,98046K rec.1 in 112K3KAsif259
AU Australia—2,6233.5K rec.—1Asif109
CA Canada—2,0782.5K rec.—1Asif99

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

Languages●

  • Hindi365K29%
  • English274K22%
  • Urdu252K20%
  • Bangla222K18%
  • 27K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi364,71529%
English274,39722%
Urdu252,27320%
Bangla221,53818%
26,5942%

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◐

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

  • a separate given name54K records spelled Asif3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, China

    Also written Āṣif, Āsif

  • Pashto given name6.0K records spelled Asif6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, United States

    Languages: Pashto, Persian

    Also written Āṣif, Aṣif

  • Thai given name3.0K records spelled Asif31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, India, Pakistan, United States

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written อาซีฟ, อาซิฟ, Asip, อัสซิฟ, Isuf

  • Danish given name2.2K records spelled Asif8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, India

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Åsìf, Àsif, Åsîf

  • Polish given name1.5K records spelled Asif2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Ăšïf

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●

Asif is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • storm; tempest

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

  • Swift, Sharp

    as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names

  • In xvo, The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: coins, sheep, beams, altars

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

  • In kab, river

    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●

02K4K6K1900192019401960198020005.4K · 1993

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Asif in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2015
Yearrecords
189910
19011
19161
19203
19212
19222
19233
19257
19261
19272
19281
19292
19301
19311
19325
19331
19344
19355
19368
19376
19389
19399
19403
19419
194210
194313
194417
194510
194623
194724
194824
194935
195018
195133
195260
195350
195454
195538
195653
195773
1958109
1959141
1960101
1961124
1962205
1963129
1964232
1965248
1966296
1967313
1968396
1969425
1970484
1971488
1972663
1973635
1974717
1975832
19761,081
1977958
19781,021
19791,118
19801,300
19811,526
19822,204
19832,281
19842,979
19852,597
19862,548
19872,946
19883,143
19893,550
19903,685
19914,311
19924,624
19935,415
19944,496
19954,571
19962,352
19972,469
19981,730
199970
20001
20061
200857
20091
201034
20115
20124
201329
2014183
2015207

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 92 years between 1899–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Akmal Khan, b. 1929Asif Nawaz, b. 1937Asif Maharammov, b. 1952Asif Ali Zardari, b. 1955Asif Raza Mir, b. 1959Asif Basra, b. 1967Asif Kapadia, b. 1972Asif Bajwa, b. 1972Asif Ali, b. 1986

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 67 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Asif
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—13K#446
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203K#5,648
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.4K#12,517
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.4K#19,296
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—766#5,594
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—766#5,586
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000652#33,090
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—535#8,756
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—416#2,859
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—403#5,299
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—396#2,493
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—357#3,485

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 · 374 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Asif?
We estimate roughly 4.3 thousand people bear Asif (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Asif have the most bearers?
Asif is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled asif.
How common is Asif compared with other names?
In India, Asif is the 659th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Asif a male or female name?
Asif 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 Asif mean?
Recorded meaning: the aquatic.
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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, “Asif” — the 659th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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