Ershad
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ershad is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Pakistan it is the 41st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Urdu, written in the Latin script.
- PKPakistan1 in 1.9K◐
- AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 6.1K
- SASaudi Arabia1 in 8K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈522 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 146 ●
- 1 in 200K ◐
across 5 countries
recorded for this name
130K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Irshad in IN India, PK Pakistan, US United States and 17 more, Ersad in AZ Azerbaijan, KG Kyrgyzstan and Erşad in TR Türkiye.
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.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 378,796 | 114K rec. | — | 1K | Irshad | 146 |
| PK Pakistan | #41 | 96,047 | 2.9K rec. | — | 4 | Irshad | 89 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #426 | 2,805 | 1.1K rec. | — | listed | Irshad | 44 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #306 | 1,219 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Irshad | 63 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,064 | 651 rec. | — | — | Irshad | 52 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | 905 | 853 rec. | — | listed | Ershad | 52 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 647 | 496 rec. | — | — | Irshad | 19 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 420 | 492 rec. | — | — | Erşad | 13 |
| US United States | — | 370 | 4.9K rec. | 1 in 899K | 497 | Irshad | 128 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 146 | 150 rec. | — | — | Irshad | 34 |
| CA Canada | — | 115 | 153 rec. | — | — | Irshad | 26 |
| OM Oman | #272 | 114 | 185 rec. | — | — | Irshad | 15 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi4.1K33%
- Urdu2.1K17%
- 1.9K15%
- Bangla1.5K12%
- English8937%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 4,105 | 33% |
| Urdu | 2,106 | 17% |
| 1,942 | 15% | |
| Bangla | 1,497 | 12% |
| English | 893 | 7% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 121 | #2,547 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 23 | #22,758 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 20 | #19,038 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 18 | #12,021 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 17 | #28,730 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 16 | #46,912 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 15 | #75,045 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 11 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #44,553 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 44 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ershad?
- We estimate roughly 522 people bear Ershad (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ershad have the most bearers?
- Ershad is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled irshad.
- How common is Ershad compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Ershad is the 41st most common given name of 75,254 given names recorded there.
- Is Ershad a male or female name?
- Ershad 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.
Query this name via API
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About this data
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, “Ershad” — the 41st most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.