Tanveer
given name · Urdu · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tanveer is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Pakistan it is the 31st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Urdu and Hindi, written in the Latin script.
- PKPakistan1 in 1.6K◐
- BDBangladesh1 in 1.9K
- INIndia1 in 21K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.3K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 169 ●
- 1 in 143K ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
100K records
Official registry-verified
Denmark
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tanvir in BD Bangladesh, AU Australia, NO Norway and 7 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 154,537 | 62K rec. | — | 770 | Tanveer | 157 |
| BD Bangladesh | #679 | 135,880 | 11K rec. | — | 487 | Tanvir | 136 |
| PK Pakistan | #31 | 117,708 | 6.3K rec. | — | 1 | Tanveer | 106 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,011 | 2K rec. | — | — | Tanveer | 84 |
| US United States | — | 862 | 12K rec. | 1 in 386K | 862 | Tanveer | 169 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 621 | 361 rec. | — | — | Tanveer | 18 |
| CA Canada | — | 470 | 919 rec. | — | 1 | Tanveer | 61 |
| ES Spain | — | 247 | 767 rec. | 1 in 202K | 276 | Tanveer | 25 |
| IT Italy | — | 215 | 425 rec. | — | 5 | Tanveer | 15 |
| AU Australia | — | 180 | 1.1K rec. | — | 2 | Tanvir | 76 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 108 | 156 rec. | — | — | Tanvir | 27 |
| SG Singapore | — | 103 | 357 rec. | — | — | Tanvir | 12 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Urdu135K43%
- Hindi133K42%
- 13K4%
- English10K3%
- Arabic6.6K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Urdu | 134,825 | 43% |
| Hindi | 132,813 | 42% |
| 12,884 | 4% | |
| English | 10,233 | 3% |
| Arabic | 6,551 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1893 | 1 |
| 1899 | 1 |
| 1919 | 2 |
| 1920 | 4 |
| 1921 | 1 |
| 1923 | 7 |
| 1924 | 4 |
| 1925 | 1 |
| 1927 | 1 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1930 | 1 |
| 1931 | 2 |
| 1932 | 4 |
| 1933 | 3 |
| 1934 | 4 |
| 1935 | 3 |
| 1936 | 2 |
| 1937 | 5 |
| 1938 | 4 |
| 1939 | 5 |
| 1940 | 7 |
| 1941 | 5 |
| 1942 | 15 |
| 1943 | 8 |
| 1944 | 9 |
| 1945 | 9 |
| 1946 | 14 |
| 1947 | 12 |
| 1948 | 20 |
| 1949 | 25 |
| 1950 | 19 |
| 1951 | 29 |
| 1952 | 41 |
| 1953 | 35 |
| 1954 | 52 |
| 1955 | 31 |
| 1956 | 50 |
| 1957 | 68 |
| 1958 | 79 |
| 1959 | 99 |
| 1960 | 91 |
| 1961 | 97 |
| 1962 | 163 |
| 1963 | 129 |
| 1964 | 193 |
| 1965 | 168 |
| 1966 | 217 |
| 1967 | 274 |
| 1968 | 277 |
| 1969 | 316 |
| 1970 | 377 |
| 1971 | 354 |
| 1972 | 538 |
| 1973 | 484 |
| 1974 | 648 |
| 1975 | 618 |
| 1976 | 845 |
| 1977 | 609 |
| 1978 | 711 |
| 1979 | 710 |
| 1980 | 568 |
| 1981 | 830 |
| 1982 | 1,161 |
| 1983 | 1,140 |
| 1984 | 1,229 |
| 1985 | 1,059 |
| 1986 | 847 |
| 1987 | 1,181 |
| 1988 | 1,022 |
| 1989 | 1,064 |
| 1990 | 1,148 |
| 1991 | 1,180 |
| 1992 | 1,254 |
| 1993 | 1,309 |
| 1994 | 1,077 |
| 1995 | 888 |
| 1996 | 542 |
| 1997 | 503 |
| 1998 | 321 |
| 1999 | 44 |
| 2000 | 1 |
| 2001 | 2 |
| 2008 | 129 |
| 2010 | 75 |
| 2011 | 2 |
| 2012 | 5 |
| 2013 | 9 |
| 2014 | 283 |
| 2015 | 45 |
| 2016 | 1 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 90 years between 1893–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Tanveer Sharifb. 1973Danish businessperson
- Tanveer Gillb. 1982INbadminton player
- Danny Batthb. 1990GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player
- Maulana Tanveer-ul-Haq ThanviPKpolitician
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 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 770 | #6,673 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 655 | #12,766 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 545 | #42,786 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 332 | #60,636 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 310 | #12,766 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 294 | #1,750 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 276 | #12,915 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 276 | #12,878 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 247 | #7,685 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 223 | #3,865 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 147 | #111,119 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 120 | #13,079 |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 328 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Tanveer?
- We estimate roughly 1.3 thousand people bear Tanveer (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Tanveer have the most bearers?
- Tanveer is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled tanveer.
- How common is Tanveer compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Tanveer is the 31st most common given name of 75,254 given names recorded there.
- Is Tanveer a male or female name?
- Tanveer 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.
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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, “Tanveer” — the 31st most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.