Mardan

loc · Urdu · Latin script

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

Mardan is a name, most frequently recorded in Pakistan. It appears chiefly in Urdu and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: (Viciu 16), cf. Smirdan (?).

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan1 in 225◐
  • KZKazakhstan1 in 9.9K
  • RURussia1 in 426K

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

≈2.0K ●

across 6 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
76 ●

12K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 9.9K ◐

Kazakhstan

Spellings & scripts●

MardanLatin · Urdu●204K records
МарданCyrillic · Kazakh●5.6K records
ᲛარდანGeorgian · Georgian●139 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Мардан in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, AZ Azerbaijan and 5 more and Მარდან 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●

(Viciu 16), cf. Smirdan (?)

Sources 1

  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

Where in the world●

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

Where Mardan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan204,399177 rec.——Mardan21
RU Russia2,4072.7K rec.—#2,782Мардан76
KZ Kazakhstan1,9272.9K rec.1 in 9.9K1.9KМардан34
IN India1,2182.2K rec.—17Mardan26
AZ Azerbaijan210152 rec.—60Мардан12
UA Ukraine158509 rec.——Мардан18
SA Saudi Arabia9435 rec.——Mardan13
GE Georgia7380 rec.1 in 55K73Მარდან5
KG Kyrgyzstan3113 rec.——Мардан6
AU Australia26104 rec.——Mardan23
TR Türkiye24366 rec.——Мардан10
BY Belarus134 rec.——Мардан4

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Languages●

  • Urdu204K84%
  • Hindi1.2K1%
  • Arabic1021%
  • English331%
  • Indonesian171%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Urdu204,39984%
Hindi1,2181%
Arabic1021%
English331%
Indonesian171%

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◐

Mardan is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5.9K records spelled Mardan3 spellings in the group

    Also written Mardān, Märdan

  • a separate name132 records spelled Mardan6 spellings in the group

    Also written মর্দন, Mordon, Mardañ

  • a separate name116 records spelled Mardan3 spellings in the group

    Also written Mardān

43 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.

Over time●

0102030194019601980200023 · 1972

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Mardan in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1923–2014
Yearrecords
19232
19241
19261
19293
19313
19324
19333
19343
19353
19364
19378
19384
19396
19402
19415
194212
19436
194411
194511
19469
194715
194813
194914
19508
195117
195216
195310
195417
195516
195610
195720
195816
195919
196014
196118
196222
196319
196416
196518
196619
196718
196818
196916
197020
197117
197223
197313
197418
197515
197615
197718
197812
197913
198017
198118
198211
198318
198414
19855
198610
198710
198810
19892
19904
19916
199211
19934
199410
19955
19962
19972
20141

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 72 years between 1923–2014. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Attested in 27 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Mardan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—81#8,510
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—28#36,210
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—28#19,943
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)197223—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)196222—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202621—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—21#87,366
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200721#48,531
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—20#18,858
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#29,035
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#27,504
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)197020—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 140 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mardan?
We estimate roughly 2.0 thousand people bear Mardan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Mardan have the most bearers?
Mardan is most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is most often spelled mardan.
What does the name Mardan mean?
Recorded meaning: (Viciu 16), cf. Smirdan (?)
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About this data

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mardan”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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