Urdu Names

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

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

Documented Urdu usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1923.

151#1,434
Up 596 rank positions in five years
2022

Documented Urdu usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1985.

202#1,071
Up 9 rank positions in five years
2024

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

79#2,320
Down 243 rank positions in five years
2021

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

350#776
Up 365 rank positions in five years
2023

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

215#1,033
Up 199 rank positions in five years
2025

Documented Urdu usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1974.

181#1,158
Up 78 rank positions in five years
2019

Documented Urdu usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1953.

118#1,728
Down 345 rank positions in five years
2019

Documented Urdu usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1974.

73#2,035
Down 637 rank positions in five years
2015

Documented Urdu usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1975.

187#1,211
Up 348 rank positions in five years
2025

Documented Urdu usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1981.

148#1,452
Up 411 rank positions in five years
2023

Documented Urdu usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1960.

60#2,328
Up 471 rank positions in five years
2023

Documented Urdu usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1970.

81#1,919
Up 4 rank positions in five years
2022

Documented Urdu usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1960.

53#2,533
Up 298 rank positions in five years
2024

Documented Urdu usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1968.

48#2,711
Up 119 rank positions in five years
2011

Documented Urdu usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2005.

45#3,419
Down 2,055 rank positions in five years
2018

Documented Urdu usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1990.

146#1,472
Up 930 rank positions in five years
2025

Documented Urdu usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1910.

55#3,000
Up 183 rank positions in five years
2015

Documented Urdu usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1974.

76#2,384
Up 574 rank positions in five years
2018

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

50#3,205
Up 385 rank positions in five years
2018

Documented Urdu usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1961.

59#2,889
Up 551 rank positions in five years
2025

Documented Urdu usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1979.

30#3,726
Down 336 rank positions in five years
2000

Documented Urdu usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1970.

26#4,107
Up 1,061 rank positions in five years
1999

Documented Urdu usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1976.

68#2,136
Up 318 rank positions in five years
2025

Documented Urdu usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1985.

72#2,063
Up 793 rank positions in five years
2025

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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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