Noshi

given name · Punjabi · Latin script

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

Noshi is a given name, most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is the 4th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Punjabi and Urdu, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan1 in 187
  • INIndia1 in 12M
  • CACanada1 in 14M

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

1.0M

in 5 countries

Sources
21

398 records

Official registry-verified

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

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

Where Noshi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#41,000,51939 rec.listedNoshi11
IN India266283 rec.165Noshi18
US United States4751 rec.Noshi21
GB United Kingdom88 rec.Noshi8
CA Canada66 rec.Noshi4
CH Switzerland0 rec.421
HR Croatia13
ES Spain0 rec.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

  • Punjabi1M100%
  • Urdu5101%
  • Hindi3431%
  • English2421%
  • Arabic1741%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Punjabi1,000,000100%
Urdu5101%
Hindi3431%
English2421%
Arabic1741%

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

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

  • English given name531 records spelled Noshi4 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Ňöśhí

  • a separate given name83 records spelled Noshi2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Also written Noshī

  • Bangla given name61 records spelled Noshi3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan

    Also written নোশি

31 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

Noshi 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.

  • In English, A form of ceremonial origami, consisting of white paper folded with a strip of dried abalone or meat, and expressing good wishes or good fortune.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Notable people with this name

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 8 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Noshi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls176#825
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls165#20,278
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202442#21,267
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202113
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202110#31,646
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)9#126,713
IN IndiaIndian names with gender (Kaggle)
PK PakistanMuslim given names (CC0)

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 8 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Noshi?
Our records include 1,001,472 bearers of Noshi across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Noshi have the most bearers?
Noshi is most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is most often spelled noshi.
How common is Noshi compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Noshi is the 4th most common given name of 75,254 given names recorded there.
Is Noshi a male or female name?
Noshi is a female 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

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, “Noshi” — the 4th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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