Pashto Boy Names

Explore names documented in Pashto naming traditions. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries.

Save nameName & connection
History
1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled
Babies 2025 · rank5-year rank movementPeak year

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1929.

1,473#239
Up 71 rank positions in five years
2025

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1950.

407#669
Down 44 rank positions in five years
2001

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1954.

939#351
Up 90 rank positions in five years
2025

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1929.

382#703
Down 69 rank positions in five years
2015

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1964.

529#562
Up 102 rank positions in five years
2022

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1949.

698#450
Up 123 rank positions in five years
2025

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1930.

84#1,867
Down 355 rank positions in five years
1975

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1969.

100#1,667
Down 519 rank positions in five years
2015

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1963.

7#10,508
Down 6,113 rank positions in five years
1980

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1967.

66#2,178
Up 566 rank positions in five years
2025

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1996.

85#1,854
Up 94 rank positions in five years
2018

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1959.

24#4,352
Down 356 rank positions in five years
1976

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1951.

56#2,448
Up 55 rank positions in five years
2016

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1966.

11#7,438
Down 1,289 rank positions in five years
2019

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1980.

9#8,804
new
2023

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1973.

11#7,403
new
1980

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1989.

12#7,165
new
2025

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1997.

11#7,234
new
2025

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1989.

—Unranked
—
2016

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2021.

—Unranked
—
2021

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2011.

5#13,552
new
2024

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2022.

—Unranked
—
2023

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1983.

—Unranked
—
1983

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2024.

—Unranked
—
2024

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Sources & methodology

Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.

Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.

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