Akhtar

At the 2020 census, 5,717 Americans bore the surname Akhtar — 5,825th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 52,300.

By the numbers

People: 5,717
Rank: 5,825th
How common: 1 in 52,300
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Persian

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Akhtar described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 90.5%
White, not Hispanic 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 1.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.09%

Notable people called Akhtar

Farhan Akhtar (born 1974)Indian director and actor
Zoya Akhtar (born 1974)Indian film director
Javed Akhtar (born 1945)Indian writer, poet and lyricist
Shoaib Akhtar (born 1975)Pakistani cricketer
Ayad Akhtar (born 1970)American actor and playwright
Adeel Akhtar (born 1980)British actor
Gulraiz Akhtar (1943–2021)Olympic field hockey player
Naheed Akhtar (born 1956)playback singer

People named Akhtar with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Akhtar

Akhter

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.