Zahid

given name · Urdu · Latin script

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

Zahid is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the 51st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Urdu and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: , (zaahid) (1:,): devout, ascetic.

rarermore common
  • BDBangladesh1 in 592◐
  • AZAzerbaijan1 in 963
  • PKPakistan1 in 1.4K

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

≈2.4K ●

across 2 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
208 ●

218K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 141K ◐

Spain

Spellings & scripts●

JahidLatin · Hindi●218K records
ЗахидCyrillic · Russian●10K records
জাহিদBengali · Bangla●594 records
ᲖაჰიდGeorgian · Georgian●70 records

Locally spelled Jahid in IN India, SA Saudi Arabia, SG Singapore and 3 more, Захид in RU Russia, AZ Azerbaijan, TR Türkiye and Zakhid in UA Ukraine.

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●

, (zaahid) (1:,): devout, ascetic

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Zahid is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh#51479,96914K rec.—listedZahid103
IN India—369,121127K rec.—650Jahid118
PK Pakistan#22132,34012K rec.—listedZahid128
RU Russia—9,0458.2K rec.—#2,332Захид92
GB United Kingdom—8,4365.8K rec.—5Zahid107
MY Malaysia—3,0783K rec.——Zahid45
MX Mexico—2,1581.2K rec.——Zahid73
US United States—2,07229K rec.1 in 161K2.1KZahid208
AU Australia—1,2601.9K rec.—1Zahid76
AZ Azerbaijan—1,200290 rec.—191Захид17
CA Canada—1,0351.5K rec.—1Zahid74
SA Saudi Arabia—873350 rec.—listedJahid22

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

Languages●

  • Urdu165K30%
  • English146K26%
  • Bangla130K23%
  • 31K6%
  • Hindi28K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Urdu165,01430%
English145,72926%
Bangla130,08123%
31,1826%
Hindi27,5145%

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◐

Zahid is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name47K records spelled Zahid6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Türkiye

    Also written Zāḥid, Zaḣid, Zâhid, Zāhid, Ẓāhid

  • Indonesian given name10K records spelled Zahid3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Pakistan

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Zåhîd

  • French given name5.2K records spelled Zahid6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Źåhïď, Zâhid, Zähïd, Zãhìd

  • Croatian given name922 records spelled Zahid13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, United Kingdom

    Languages: Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian

    Also written Захид, Žahid, Жахид, Zãhïd, Захiд

47 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●

Zahid is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Arabic, abstinent

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • In Arabic, devout, ascetic. One who renounces the world and is fully devoted to Allah

    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●

0204060801920194019601980200061 · 1993

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Zahid in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1917–2015
Yearrecords
19171
19201
19261
19322
19331
19361
19381
19391
19401
19412
19424
19433
19449
19455
19462
19478
19483
19494
19507
19516
19529
19533
195414
19557
19566
195717
195816
195919
196010
19619
196231
196325
196440
196518
196621
196729
196822
196935
197040
197116
197237
197326
197431
197527
197642
197719
197822
197915
198019
198113
198241
198337
198431
198524
198615
198731
198833
198922
199028
199130
199235
199361
199441
199524
199622
199738
199814
19994
20084
20111
20145
20155

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 72 years between 1917–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Zahid Ur Rashdi, b. 1948Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, b. 1953Zahid Maleque, b. 1959Zahidi Zainul Abidin, b. 1961Zahid Hasan, b. 1967Zahid Oruc, b. 1972Zahid Quraishi, b. 1975Zahid Ali, b. 1976Zahid Ahsan Russel, b. 1978Zahid Valencia, b. 1997

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 72 sources across 41 countries.

Official registers attesting Zahid
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.1K#7,340
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.8K#15,460
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.1K#23,283
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000575#36,672
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—543#7,493
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—543#7,480
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—398#2,935
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—355#2,691
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—355#5,818
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—326#4,631
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—201#17,625
AZ AzerbaijanAzerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics—191—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 392 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Zahid?
We estimate roughly 2.4 thousand people bear Zahid (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
In which country does Zahid have the most bearers?
Zahid is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled zahid.
How common is Zahid compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Zahid is the 51st most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
Is Zahid a male or female name?
Zahid 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 Zahid mean?
Recorded meaning: , (zaahid) (1:,): devout, ascetic
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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, “Zahid” — the 51st most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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