Pashto 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 name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak 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 1929. | 382#703 | Down 69 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
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 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 1978. | 6#13,758 | new | 1997 | ||
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 1988. | —Unranked | — | 2023 | ||
Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2013. | —Unranked | — | 2018 | ||
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 2013. | —Unranked | — | 2022 | ||
Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2016. | —Unranked | — | 2016 | ||
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 1995. | —Unranked | — | 1995 | ||
Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1996. | —Unranked | — | 1996 | ||
Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2009. | —Unranked | — | 2009 | ||
Documented Pashto usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2016. | —Unranked | — | 2016 | ||
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.