Murad

given name · English · Latin script

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

Murad is a given name, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. In Algeria it is the 44th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Bangla, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from a personal name based on Arabic murad ‘will’, ‘purpose’, ‘wish’.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye1 in 155◐
  • DZAlgeria1 in 166
  • AZAzerbaijan1 in 1.1K

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

≈553K ●

across 13 countries

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
224 ●

204K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 155 ◐

Türkiye

Spellings & scripts●

MuradLatin · English●213K records
МурадCyrillic · Russian●129K records
ᲛურადGeorgian · Georgian●4.5K records
ՄուրադArmenian · Armenian●40 records
มูราดThai · Thai●10 records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Мурад in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 more, Mourad in ES Spain, TN Tunisia, Murat in BG Bulgaria, XK Kosovo and Мурат in MK North Macedonia.

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●

from a personal name based on Arabic murad ‘will’, ‘purpose’, ‘wish’. This was the name of a son of the 16th-century Mughal emperor Akbar.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Murad is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye—527,648△6.5K rec.1 in 155528KMurad30
DZ Algeria#44146,875114 rec.—#8Murad8
RU Russia#270126,954111K rec.—#117Мурад142
BD Bangladesh#38155,9982 rec.——Murad4
FR France—8,290△13 rec.1 in 8.2K8.3K—3
UA Ukraine#6844,8115.7K rec.—listedМурад38
KZ Kazakhstan—4,4512.8K rec.1 in 4.3K4.5KМурад31
KG Kyrgyzstan#7684,321347 rec.——Murad12
SY Syria#9304,2149.4K rec.—2Murad35
AZ Azerbaijan#1234,1191.6K rec.—3.4KМурад46
ES Spain—3,845△220 rec.1 in 13K3.8KMourad18
BG Bulgaria#3923,1843.5K rec.——Murat39

Roughly 528K people in Türkiye bear this name (about 1 in 155). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • English213K47%
  • Bangla62K13%
  • Hindi36K8%
  • Urdu27K6%
  • Azerbaijani19K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English213,28547%
Bangla61,69613%
Hindi36,0328%
Urdu26,7836%
Azerbaijani18,5464%

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◐

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

  • Bangla given name202K records spelled Murad37 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Bangla, Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Morad, মুরাদ, Mourad, Muraad, মূরাদ

  • Uzbek given name44K records spelled Murad17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Azerbaijan, Türkiye, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkish

    Also written Мурад, Mürad, Müräd, Murād, Murád

  • a separate given name20K records spelled Murad5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, Ethiopia, United States

    Also written Murād, Murâd, Murád, Mûrad

  • Spanish given name17K records spelled Murad12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Spain, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Murād, Mürâd, Murád, Mürad, Múrâd

  • Indonesian given name11K records spelled Murad4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, India, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Mûrâd, Murād

  • Polish given name2.1K records spelled Murad2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Türkiye

    Also written Mūrãd

46 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●

Murad is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Arabic, wish; desire

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • In German, männl. Vom. arabischer Herkunft (arab. muräd »erwünscht«). Türk. Form:

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • intention; desire; purpose;

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

  • Querido, deseado

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

  • In Arabic, will, intended, aimed at. Son of Mughal emperor Akbar.*! Murad I-IV: Ottoman Sultans. See Arzu goo! (f.); Maqsud 45.020; Munya aie (f.)

    as a nameA 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●

0100200300400190019201940196019802000354 · 1993

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Murad in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2017
Yearrecords
18991
19121
19141
19183
19191
19201
19211
19221
19232
19244
19252
19264
19271
19283
19293
19304
19311
19326
19335
19349
19356
19366
193710
193812
193917
194013
194113
194223
194320
194421
194521
194629
194729
194833
194934
195021
195136
195247
195330
195452
195537
195658
195758
195859
195979
196052
196183
196272
196374
196492
196567
1966100
1967102
196893
1969124
1970119
1971127
1972127
1973170
1974114
1975137
1976165
1977143
1978167
1979158
1980154
1981186
1982229
1983244
1984234
1985248
1986226
1987268
1988251
1989235
1990237
1991287
1992303
1993354
1994256
1995249
1996104
1997125
199898
19994
20071
200813
20091
201010
20121
20135
201444
20158
20171

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 94 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●

12001400160018002000Murad I, b. 1326Murad II, b. 1403Murad III, b. 1546Murad Mirza of Hindustan, b. 1570Murad IV, b. 1612Murad Bakhsh, b. 1624Murad Bey, b. 1750Murad V, b. 1840Jack Kevorkian, b. 1928Murad Wilfried Hofmann, b. 1931
  • Murad Ib. 1326TRthird Ottoman sultan (1362–1389)
  • Murad IIb. 1403TRsixth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1421–1444, 1446–1451)
  • Murad IIIb. 1546TR12th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1574–1595)
  • Murad Mirza of Hindustanb. 1570INHindustani Imperial and Royal
  • Murad IVb. 1612TRthe 17th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1623–1640)
  • Murad Bakhshb. 1624INMughal prince (1624-1661)
  • Murad Beyb. 1750GEEgyptian noble (1750–1801)
  • Murad Vb. 1840TR33th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876)
  • Jack Kevorkianb. 1928USnot in their usual nameAmerican pathologist, euthanasia activist (1928-2011)
  • Murad Wilfried Hofmannb. 1931DEGerman diplomat

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 81 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Murad
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AZ AzerbaijanAzerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics—3.4K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.4K#12,379
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.8K#15,784
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.8K#5,373
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.8K#8,241
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.5K#17,540
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—927#1,066
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—551—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026438#752
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—399#764
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—366#3,103
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020341—

Reference works 8

  • 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
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 453 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Murad?
We estimate roughly 553 thousand people bear Murad (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Murad have the most bearers?
We estimate about 528 thousand people bear Murad in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled murad.
Where is Murad most common?
Murad is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 155 people carrying it.
How common is Murad compared with other names?
In Algeria, Murad is the 44th most common given name of 30,102 given names recorded there.
Is Murad a male or female name?
Murad 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 Murad mean?
Recorded meaning: from a personal name based on Arabic murad ‘will’, ‘purpose’, ‘wish’.
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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, “Murad” — the 44th most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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