Pashto Girl Names

Explore names documented in Pashto naming traditions. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries. This focused selection includes only sourced names with matching U.S. birth records; many other names used in this tradition are absent from the U.S. data.

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 1880.

491#597
Up 64 rank positions in five years
2023

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1965.

23#5,541
Up 1,648 rank positions in five years
2024

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1978.

6#13,758
new
1997

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1988.

—Unranked
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2023

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2013.

—Unranked
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2018

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2013.

—Unranked
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2022

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2016.

—Unranked
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2016

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1995.

—Unranked
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1995

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

—Unranked
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1996

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2009.

—Unranked
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2009

Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2016.

—Unranked
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2016

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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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