Javad
given name · Persian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Javad is a given name, most frequently recorded in Pakistan. In Afghanistan it is the 51st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Persian and English, written in the Latin script.
- MAMorocco1 in 1K◐
- AFAfghanistan1 in 1.4K
- IRIran1 in 4.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈9.1K ●
- 6 ●
- Sources
- 226 ●
- 1 in 8.4K ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
141K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jawad in FR France, US United States, PK Pakistan and 17 more, Джавад in RU Russia, AZ Azerbaijan, UA Ukraine and Ჯავად in GE Georgia.
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #278 | 19,122 | 5.1K rec. | — | listed | Jawad | 112 |
| IR Iran | — | 18,558 | 9.9K rec. | — | — | Javad | 88 |
| MA Morocco | #93 | 15,330 | 14K rec. | — | — | Jawad | 85 |
| IN India | — | 9,413 | 5.7K rec. | — | 17 | Javad | 60 |
| IQ Iraq | — | 7,195 | 7.7K rec. | — | — | Jawad | 49 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 5,647 | 7K rec. | — | — | Jawad | 27 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 4,983 | 3.5K rec. | — | 4 | Jawad | 91 |
| RU Russia | — | 3,895 | 4K rec. | — | #2,288 | Джавад | 95 |
| FR France | — | 3,835 | 13K rec. | 1 in 18K | 3.8K | Jawad | 226 |
| SY Syria | — | 2,976 | 5.3K rec. | — | — | Jawad | 31 |
| DE Germany | — | 2,867 | 3.2K rec. | — | 1 | Jawad | 86 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #468 | 2,557 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Jawad | 91 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Persian20K40%
- English9.7K20%
- Hindi2.5K5%
- Arabic2.5K5%
- 1.8K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Persian | 19,882 | 40% |
| English | 9,741 | 20% |
| Hindi | 2,467 | 5% |
| Arabic | 2,466 | 5% |
| 1,818 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 99 |
| 2000 | 94 |
| 2001 | 92 |
| 2002 | 95 |
| 2003 | 95 |
| 2004 | 98 |
| 2005 | 106 |
| 2006 | 112 |
| 2007 | 116 |
| 2008 | 122 |
| 2009 | 126 |
| 2010 | 134 |
| 2011 | 154 |
| 2012 | 163 |
| 2013 | 171 |
| 2014 | 180 |
| 2015 | 192 |
| 2016 | 218 |
| 2017 | 257 |
| 2018 | 287 |
| 2019 | 326 |
| 2020 | 335 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Javad Khanb. 1748AZKhan of Ganja
- Javad Khameneib. 1895IRfather of Iran's supreme leader
- Javad Nurbakhshb. 1926IRMaster of Nimatullahi Sufi Order (1926–2008)
- Javad Tabatabaib. 1945IRIranian philosopher and political scientist (1945–2023)
- Javad Etaatb. 1963IRIranian politician
- Javad Zarinchehb. 1966IRIranian footballer (born 1966)
- Javad Foroughib. 1979IRIranian sport shooter
- Javad Nekounamb. 1980IRIranian footballer
- Javad Kazemianb. 1981IRIranian footballer
- Javad Mahjoubb. 1991IRIranian judoka
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 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 813 | #14,496 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 442 | #3,027 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 335 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 326 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 287 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 280 | #3,736 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 257 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 218 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 213 | #1,739 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 192 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 180 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 171 | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 · 132 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Javad?
- We estimate roughly 9.1 thousand people bear Javad (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Javad have the most bearers?
- Javad is most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is most often spelled jawad.
- How common is Javad compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Javad is the 278th most common given name of 75,254 given names recorded there.
- Is Javad a male or female name?
- Javad 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.
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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, “Javad” — the 278th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.