Irshad

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Ershad in BD Bangladesh, DE Germany, PH Philippines and 3 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●

Languages●

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◐

Irshad is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name98K records spelled Irshad2 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Irshād

• English given name24K records spelled Irshad9 spellings in the group

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

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Irśhad, Ïrshãd, Irshād, Ìrshẳd

• a separate name1.3K records spelled Irshad3 spellings in the group

  Also written ഇർഷാദ്

• Pashto given name627 records spelled Irshad2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, United States

  Also written Irshād

42 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●

Irshad 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, guidance, guiding/hand, instruction

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In Arabic, guidance. See Hidayat aslo

  as a name·A Dictionary of 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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 96 years between 1899–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Irshad Ahmedb. 1930PKbadminton player
• Irshu Bangashb. 1992PKnot in their usual namePakistani Film Director, Music Producer and Media Activist

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 250 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Irshad?

We estimate roughly 522 people bear Irshad (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.

In which country does Irshad have the most bearers?

Irshad is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled irshad.

How common is Irshad compared with other names?

In Pakistan, Irshad is the 41st most common given name of 75,254 given names recorded there.

Is Irshad a male or female name?

Irshad 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 Irshad mean?

Recorded meaning: command; order;