Kashif

given name · Urdu · Latin script

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

Kashif is a given name, most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is the 40th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Urdu and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: discoverer.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan1 in 1.9K◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 30K
  • CACanada1 in 68K

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

≈2.2K ●

across 7 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
230 ●

60K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 94K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

KashifLatin · Urdu●114K records
คาชีฟThai · Thai●10 records
কাশিফBengali · Bangla●2 records

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●

discoverer

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Kashif is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#4099,54212K rec.—4Kashif130
IN India—38,79016K rec.—107Kashif120
GB United Kingdom—6,9953.7K rec.—5Kashif121
US United States—1,65520K rec.1 in 201K1.7KKashif230
AU Australia—1,2721.6K rec.——Kashif90
CA Canada—1,2161.3K rec.—6Kashif75
DE Germany—612660 rec.——Kashif81
MY Malaysia—444554 rec.——Kashif21
ES Spain—3181K rec.1 in 157K318Kashif41
ZA South Africa—202239 rec.——Kashif20
IT Italy—172388 rec.——Kashif19
SE Sweden—112141 rec.—119Kashif13

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

Languages●

  • Urdu114K60%
  • English25K13%
  • Hindi25K13%
  • Arabic7.8K4%
  • Bangla2.3K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Urdu114,34260%
English24,99713%
Hindi24,63613%
Arabic7,8264%
Bangla2,3161%

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◐

Kashif is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name2.1K records spelled Kashif2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, China

    Also written Kāshif

  • Pashto given name666 records spelled Kashif2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, India, United States, Malaysia

    Also written Kāshif

50 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●

Kashif 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.

  • opener; exhibitor

    as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

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●

0204060801980199020002010202069 · 1985

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Kashif in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1973–2025
Yearrecords
19735
19746
19758
19767
19778
197813
19799
198010
198113
198213
198343
198457
198569
198654
198741
198858
198949
199041
199125
199233
199323
199421
199524
199619
19978
199812
19996
200013
20018
200213
200314
200414
20056
20069
200715
20088
200910
201010
201110
201210
20136
20147
20159
20167
20179
20185
201910
202012
202112
202210
20238
20246
20255

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 53 years between 1973–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19501960197019801990Kashif, b. 1959Kashif Ahmad, b. 1980Kashif Bernard, b. 1985Sulehri Kashif Ali, b. 1986Kashif Moore, b. 1988

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 47 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Kashif
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.7K#8,657
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020964#26,628
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010389#53,204
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—318#6,320
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—280#3,741
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—249#3,523
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—194#8,151
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—181#17,885
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—181#17,805
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—119#6,267
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—111#7,951
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000109#140,756

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 224 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kashif?
We estimate roughly 2.2 thousand people bear Kashif (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Kashif have the most bearers?
Kashif is most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is most often spelled kashif.
How common is Kashif compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Kashif is the 40th most common given name of 75,254 given names recorded there.
Is Kashif a male or female name?
Kashif 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 Kashif mean?
Recorded meaning: discoverer
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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, “Kashif” — the 40th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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