Riaz
surname · Urdu · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Riaz is a surname, most frequently recorded in India. It appears chiefly in Urdu and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘Meadows’, ‘gardens’; in some countries denoting meadows where horses were broken in.
- PKPakistan1 in 305◐
- INIndia1 in 14K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 27K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.2K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 214 ●
- 1 in 16K ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
141K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Riyaj in IN India, SA Saudi Arabia, AE United Arab Emirates and 1 more and Reaz in SG Singapore, GY Guyana.
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●
‘Meadows’, ‘gardens’; in some countries denoting meadows where horses were broken in.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 224,121 | 82K rec. | — | 146 | Riyaj | 79 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 165,119 | 9.9K rec. | — | listed | Riaz | 139 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 8,448 | 6.2K rec. | — | 3 | Riaz | 118 |
| BD Bangladesh | #800 | 3,194 | 4.8K rec. | — | — | Riaz | 81 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,016 | 1.8K rec. | — | 1 | Riaz | 59 |
| US United States | — | 887 | 27K rec. | 1 in 375K | 2K | Riaz | 214 |
| CA Canada | — | 760 | 1.4K rec. | — | 2 | Riaz | 74 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 649 | 378 rec. | — | — | Riaz | 21 |
| DE Germany | — | 481 | 712 rec. | — | listed | Riaz | 73 |
| IT Italy | — | 341 | 669 rec. | — | 1 | Riaz | 21 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 306 | 94 rec. | — | — | Riyaj | 10 |
| PH Philippines | — | 285 | 254 rec. | — | — | Riaz | 9 |
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Languages●
- Urdu171K76%
- English15K6%
- Arabic6.1K3%
- Spanish4.7K2%
- Chinese3.6K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Urdu | 171,328 | 76% |
| English | 14,545 | 6% |
| Arabic | 6,122 | 3% |
| Spanish | 4,671 | 2% |
| Chinese | 3,646 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Riaz 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 Arabic, sportsman; from riyaaD
as a nameAfrican 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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 18 |
| 2000 | 16 |
| 2001 | 16 |
| 2002 | 20 |
| 2003 | 22 |
| 2004 | 22 |
| 2005 | 21 |
| 2006 | 25 |
| 2007 | 28 |
| 2008 | 28 |
| 2009 | 29 |
| 2010 | 30 |
| 2011 | 32 |
| 2012 | 33 |
| 2013 | 33 |
| 2014 | 30 |
| 2015 | 32 |
| 2016 | 33 |
| 2017 | 34 |
| 2018 | 37 |
| 2019 | 43 |
| 2020 | 43 |
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●
- Neelob. 1940PKnot in their usual namePakistani actress (1940-2021)
- Fahmida Riazb. 1946INPakistani Urdu writer, poet, feminist (1946-2018)
- Rahma Riadb. 1987IQnot in their usual nameIraqi singer
- Umar Riazb. 1991INIndian surgeon and model
- Asim Riazb. 1993INIndian model
- Usama Riazb. 1994PKPakistani doctor
- Usman RiazPakistani film director
- Tahira Riazresearcher
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 53 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 5
- 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
- Wikipedia surname 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 · 136 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Riaz?
- We estimate roughly 1.2 thousand people bear Riaz (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Riaz have the most bearers?
- Riaz is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled riyaj.
- How common is Riaz compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Riaz is the 800th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Riaz mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘Meadows’, ‘gardens’; in some countries denoting meadows where horses were broken in.
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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, “Riaz” — the 800th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.