Hafeez
surname · Urdu · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hafeez is a surname, most frequently recorded in India. In Pakistan it is the 51st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Urdu and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from a personal name based on Arabic hdfiz ‘protector’.
- PKPakistan1 in 820◐
- MYMalaysia1 in 2.7K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 3.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.6K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 194 ●
- 1 in 29K ◐
across 5 countries
recorded for this name
177K records
Official registry-verified
Kazakhstan
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Hafiz in PK Pakistan, MY Malaysia, GB United Kingdom and 14 more, Хафиз in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, AZ Azerbaijan, Hafij in IN India and Хафіз 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●
from a personal name based on Arabic hdfiz ‘protector’. This is also an honorific title given to someone who has memorized the whole of the _1JM_ Qur’an. Al-Hdfiz ‘the Protector’ is an attribute of Allah.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 149,674 | 78K rec. | — | 749 | Hafij | 83 |
| PK Pakistan | #51 | 121,975 | 9.4K rec. | — | 5 | Hafiz | 117 |
| MY Malaysia | #159 | 24,216 | 26K rec. | — | — | Hafiz | 76 |
| RU Russia | — | 6,937 | 4K rec. | — | #662 | Хафиз | 95 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 5,351 | 3.7K rec. | — | listed | Hafiz | 82 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #416 | 4,088 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Hafiz | 79 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 3,705 | 4.6K rec. | — | — | Hafiz | 55 |
| BD Bangladesh | #504 | 2,262 | 2.8K rec. | — | listed | Hafiz | 80 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,954 | 2.7K rec. | — | 1 | Hafiz | 69 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #387 | 1,567 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Hafiz | 65 |
| SY Syria | — | 1,335 | 3.1K rec. | — | — | Hafiz | 10 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 1,273 | 2.4K rec. | — | — | Hafiz | 18 |
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Languages●
- Urdu46K47%
- 22K22%
- English10K11%
- Hindi9K9%
- Arabic4.7K5%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Urdu | 46,017 | 47% |
| 21,541 | 22% | |
| English | 10,347 | 11% |
| Hindi | 9,003 | 9% |
| Arabic | 4,665 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Hafeez is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, preserver
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.
Notable people with this name●
- Muhammad Hafeezb. 1943PKPakistani cyclist
- Amin HafeezPKPakistani journalist
- Khalid HafeezPKPakistani actor
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 37 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 6.1K | #872 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,034 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 988 | #25,115 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 646 | #33,333 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 289 | #28,814 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 168 | #20,026 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 163 | #19,283 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 163 | #19,199 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 159 | #2,702 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 116 | #13,496 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 108 | #21,680 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 70 | #524 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 51 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hafeez?
- We estimate roughly 1.6 thousand people bear Hafeez (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Hafeez have the most bearers?
- Hafeez is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled hafij.
- How common is Hafeez compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Hafeez is the 51st most common given name of 75,254 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Hafeez mean?
- Recorded meaning: from a personal name based on Arabic hdfiz ‘protector’.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hafeez” — the 51st most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.