Imran

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Imran is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Pakistan it is the 12th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Imran är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’lycka, välgång’.

rarermore common
  • BDBangladesh1 in 499◐
  • TJTajikistan1 in 635
  • PKPakistan1 in 774

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

≈42K ●

across 10 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
302 ●

553K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.4K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

ImranLatin · Hindi●663K records
ИмранCyrillic · Russian●49K records
ইমরানBengali · Bangla●2.2K records
ᲘმრანGeorgian · Georgian●785 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Имран in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and 2 more, Имрон in TJ Tajikistan, UZ Uzbekistan, Იმრან in GE Georgia and Імран 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●

recorded in Swedish

Imran är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’lycka, välgång’. En känd namnbärare är Imran Khan (f. 1952), f.d. premiärminister i Pakistan.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Imran is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#344967,370334K rec.—1.1KImran186
BD Bangladesh#41569,93413K rec.—listedImran133
PK Pakistan#12241,61024K rec.—listedImran133
RU Russia#57041,36929K rec.—#213Имран121
GB United Kingdom#68625,00715K rec.——Imran177
MY Malaysia#16023,71919K rec.——Imran66
FR France—15,700△15 rec.1 in 4.3K16K—6
KZ Kazakhstan#36211,77219K rec.1 in 1.6K12KИмран33
KG Kyrgyzstan#4647,684216 rec.——Имран14
TJ Tajikistan#786,58046 rec.—1.7KИмрон6
US United States—5,96054K rec.1 in 56K6KImran302
ID Indonesia—5,2102.5K rec.—listedImran120

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

Languages●

  • Hindi663K30%
  • English420K19%
  • Urdu382K17%
  • Bangla322K15%
  • Turkish85K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi663,20330%
English420,20919%
Urdu382,08417%
Bangla322,13915%
Turkish85,1314%

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◐

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

  • French given name81K records spelled Imran31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Imrân, Ïmran, Îmrâñ, Îmran, Îmŕãň

  • a separate given name67K records spelled Imran2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Ethiopia

    Also written Imrān

  • Arabic given name57K records spelled Imran11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Saudi Arabia, Israel, India, United Arab Emirates

    Languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic

    Also written עמראן, עמרן, עימראן, אמראן, יימראן

  • Arabic given name4.6K records spelled Imran56 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Yemen, Thailand, India, Malaysia

    Languages: Arabic, Thai, Hindi

    Also written Amran, อัมราน, อิมราน, Amrani, Amaran

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name4.5K records spelled Imran14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United Kingdom, India

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Îmřâń, Ìmrãñ, Ïmrâñ, Îmråņ, Îmrån

  • Finnish given name1.9K records spelled Imran3 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Îmran

53 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●

Imran is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Arabic, population; civilization; observance of etiquette

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • Anfitrión

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

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●

02.5K5K7.5K10K1900192019401960198020009.9K · 1993

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Imran in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2015
Yearrecords
189911
19001
19121
19141
19163
19171
19184
19194
192014
19214
19224
192328
19243
19254
19263
19272
19284
19295
19305
19312
19324
19333
19346
19357
19369
19377
193813
193913
194013
194113
194216
194326
194430
194528
194623
194731
194836
194951
195045
195151
195280
195355
1954128
195570
1956102
1957154
1958155
1959228
1960156
1961202
1962380
1963261
1964422
1965310
1966471
1967513
1968564
1969636
1970717
1971704
19721,063
19731,021
19741,248
19751,280
19761,889
19771,644
19781,930
19792,220
19802,974
19813,686
19825,823
19836,314
19847,856
19857,188
19867,243
19878,589
19888,980
19899,272
19909,171
19919,726
19929,759
19939,905
19947,687
19956,561
19963,025
19972,740
19981,790
199991
20001
20011
20023
2008138
201071
20112
20122
201317
2014530
2015452

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 98 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●

500100015002000Abu Talib, b. 540Amram Gaon, b. 810Imran Nazar Hosein, b. 1942Amram Mitzna, b. 1945Imran Khan, b. 1952Imran Abbas Naqvi, b. 1977Imran Khan, b. 1983Imran Khan, b. 1984Mohammad Imran Khan, b. 1987Imrân Louza, b. 1999

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 93 sources across 49 countries.

Official registers attesting Imran
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202416K#33
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206K#3,453
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—5.1K#869
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—4.1K#460
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.6K#11,567
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1.6K#1,262
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.3K#20,491
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—1.3K#1,811
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1.1K#4,941
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.1K#3,940
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.1K#3,939
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.1K#1,619

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 · 835 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Imran?
We estimate roughly 42 thousand people bear Imran (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Imran have the most bearers?
Imran is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled imran.
How common is Imran compared with other names?
In India, Imran is the 344th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Imran a male or female name?
Imran 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 Imran mean?
Recorded meaning: Imran är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’lycka, välgång’.
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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, “Imran” — the 344th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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