Haider

4,771 people in the United States were counted with the surname Haider in the 2020 census, making it the 6,801st most common in the country. That is about one person in 62,600.

By the numbers

People: 4,771
Rank: 6,801st
How common: 1 in 62,600
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

or Persian حَیْدَر.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 60.0%
White, not Hispanic 31.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Haider

Jörg Haider (1950–2008)Austrian politician
Jalila Haider (born 1988)Pakistani human rights lawyer and Provincial president of Women Democratic Front
Maximilian Haider (born 1950)Austrian physicist
Sarah Haider (born 1991)pakistani-American ex-Muslim activist

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

Surnames like Haider

Also a first name

Haider has been given to 1,077 American babies as a first name since 1985, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.