Names of Tajikistan TJ
The names that most distinguish Tajikistan from the rest of the world are Курбонов, Мирзоев and Шарипов; names here are written in Cyrillic.
Written in Tajik, Russian.
- Population
- 8.9M
- Official registers
- 1
- Name forms recorded
- 21K
At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.
How names work in Tajikistan
6 naming traditions are in use in Tajikistan, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.
The most common names in Tajikistan
Characteristic of Tajikistan
Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Tajikistan holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.
Scripts & spelling
Names in Tajikistan are written in Cyrillic (100%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.
Countries whose names look alike
Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.
Registers & sources
Official registers
- Ministry of Justice — most popular newborn names2023not a population count
Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Tajikistan (Вазорати адлия / ЗАГС). Counts: not recorded. given. 10 forms. 2023. Licence: Free (government release via press).
What we know about this register
Ministry of Justice (civil-registry/ЗАГС) annual top-name release for 2023, republished by Asia-Plus / Bomdod with exact registration counts. Top-10 male + top-9 female. Tajik Cyrillic with Latin transliteration as published. 19 rows. Re-check Asia-Plus each February for the new year's list. First official TJ name data in NELMA.
Last verified 2026-05-28.
Cited works
Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.
- How Russian Names Workpaper
- Circassiansencyclopaedia
- A primer on Chechen namesweb
- A primer on Tajik namesweb
- Behind the Namenamesite
- Blue Domesweb
- Chechen languageencyclopaedia
- Chechen Namesnamesite
- Chechensencyclopaedia
- Circassian diasporaencyclopaedia
- Circassian Names (Jaimoukha, oocities)web
- Circassiansencyclopaedia
- Circassians: Kinshipweb
- Crafting Identity: Surnames in the Turkish Republicweb
- Double Surnames Among Circassians in Homeland and Diaspora (Ionov 2024, Voprosy Onomastiki / Avesis)web
- Eastern Slavic naming customsencyclopaedia
- Eurasianetweb
- Forebearsgenealogy
- How Russian Patronymics Workweb
- Ingush peopleencyclopaedia
- Ingush submitted surnamesnamesite
- Kabardiansencyclopaedia
- Nakh languagesencyclopaedia
- Quora: Russified -ov/-ova names in the Caucasusweb
- RFE/RLweb
- Russian given nameencyclopaedia
- Russian surnameencyclopaedia
- Russification of Central Asian namesweb
- Slavic name suffixesencyclopaedia
- South Ossetia Adopts Law On Surnamesweb
- Surnam.esweb
- Surname Law (Turkey)encyclopaedia
- Teipencyclopaedia
- The de-Russification of surnames in Central Asiaweb
- Tribal Unions and Clansweb
- Wikipediaencyclopaedia
About this data
Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.
Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.
Questions
- Is there one naming system in Tajikistan?
- No — 6 are described on this page (Tajik, Russian, Ossetian, Uzbek and Russian, Chechen and Caucasian, Circassian), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.
Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Tajikistan”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/TJ (data snapshot 2026-09-12).