Tanvir
surname · Bangla · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tanvir is a surname, most frequently recorded in India. In Pakistan it is the 31st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Bangla and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: illumination; blossoming.
- 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
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Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Tanveer in IN India, PK Pakistan, US United States and 13 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●
illumination; blossoming
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
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●
- Bangla71K48%
- English68K47%
- Hindi4K3%
- Urdu9041%
- 6601%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Bangla | 70,544 | 48% |
| English | 67,891 | 47% |
| Hindi | 3,986 | 3% |
| Urdu | 904 | 1% |
| 660 | 1% |
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●
Tanvir 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, 5 (fanweer) (5.55): illumination, blossoming
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1934 | 1 |
| 1939 | 1 |
| 1941 | 1 |
| 1942 | 1 |
| 1946 | 1 |
| 1949 | 1 |
| 1950 | 1 |
| 1951 | 1 |
| 1952 | 2 |
| 1955 | 1 |
| 1956 | 1 |
| 1957 | 2 |
| 1958 | 1 |
| 1959 | 2 |
| 1960 | 1 |
| 1961 | 2 |
| 1962 | 2 |
| 1963 | 3 |
| 1964 | 2 |
| 1965 | 3 |
| 1966 | 1 |
| 1967 | 4 |
| 1968 | 5 |
| 1969 | 7 |
| 1970 | 12 |
| 1971 | 7 |
| 1972 | 5 |
| 1973 | 7 |
| 1974 | 10 |
| 1975 | 16 |
| 1976 | 16 |
| 1977 | 7 |
| 1978 | 11 |
| 1979 | 12 |
| 1980 | 16 |
| 1981 | 13 |
| 1982 | 22 |
| 1983 | 23 |
| 1984 | 27 |
| 1985 | 28 |
| 1986 | 20 |
| 1987 | 23 |
| 1988 | 19 |
| 1989 | 26 |
| 1990 | 24 |
| 1991 | 29 |
| 1992 | 21 |
| 1993 | 15 |
| 1994 | 16 |
| 1995 | 20 |
| 1996 | 11 |
| 1997 | 5 |
| 1998 | 3 |
| 2013 | 2 |
| 2014 | 6 |
| 2015 | 3 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 56 years between 1934–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- E. M. TANVIRBDresearcher
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 39 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 3
- 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 · 250 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Tanvir?
- We estimate roughly 1.3 thousand people bear Tanvir (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Tanvir have the most bearers?
- Tanvir is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled tanveer.
- How common is Tanvir compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Tanvir is the 31st most common given name of 75,254 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Tanvir mean?
- Recorded meaning: illumination; blossoming
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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, “Tanvir” — the 31st most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.