Bangladeshi Name Generator

Real Bangladeshi names from Dhaka to the Hill Tracts

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Generate authentic Bangladeshi names: Muslim two-part names like Mizanur Rahman and Nusrat Jahan, Hindu Bangladeshi names with Das, Saha and Roy, plus Barua, Chakma, Marma, Garo and Bengali Christian families, all paired the way they actually appear in Bangladesh.

About Bangladeshi names

Nine in ten Bangladeshis are Muslim, so the typical Bangladeshi name is a two-part Arabic or Persian compound rather than a first name plus inherited surname. A man is Mizanur Rahman, Shafiqul Islam or Kamrul Hasan, where the second word (Rahman, Islam, Hossain, Uddin, Ahmed, Haque, Alam) acts like a surname but is usually not passed to his children. Official documents add Md. (Mohammad) in front, which vanishes in everyday speech. Women traditionally close with Begum, Khatun, Akter, Sultana, Parvin or Jahan, while urban families increasingly carry hereditary names such as Chowdhury, Khan, Talukdar, Bhuiyan, Sikder, Mollah or Sheikh.

Bangladesh is not only Muslim. Roughly eight percent of the country is Hindu, and those names follow the Sanskrit pattern with surnames like Das, Saha, Roy, Pal, Mondal, Biswas, Debnath, Shil and Karmakar, often with a Kumar, Chandra or Rani in the middle. Chittagong has Buddhist Baruas, the hill tracts add Chakma, Marma and Tripura names, the north has Santal surnames like Soren and Hembrom, Mymensingh has Garo names such as Sangma and Marak, and old Dhaka has Portuguese-descended Christians named Gomes, Rozario and D'Costa.

The list mixes all of these in realistic proportions, so a character or dataset drawn from it sounds like Bangladesh rather than generic South Asia.

How to choose Bangladeshi names

  • Keep religion and surname consistent: Rahman, Hossain, Akter and Begum belong to Muslim names, while Das, Saha, Roy and Rani are Hindu. A Hindu character called Sumon Saha fits; Sumon Saha Chowdhury reads as a mistake unless you intend a mixed family.
  • For Bangladeshi Muslim families, do not assume a shared surname. A father named Abdul Karim can have a son named Rafiqul Islam and a daughter named Farzana Akter; that is normal, not an error.
  • Spelling is flexible because names are transliterated from Bangla. Akter, Akhter and Akhtar, Hossain and Hussain, Molla and Mollah, Mia and Miah are all correct, so pick one spelling per family and stick with it.
  • Everyone has a short daak naam used at home, often unrelated to the formal name: Shahidul might be Shuvo, Tahmina might be Mim, Ashraful might be Rony. Use it in dialogue between relatives and the formal name on forms.
  • Age your names. Older rural characters suit Abdul Barek, Kuddus Ali, Hosne Ara or Jobeda Khatun; Dhaka teenagers are more likely to be Tahmid, Raiyan, Adrita, Nuzhat or Samin.

Frequently asked questions

What are the most common Bangladeshi surnames?

Among Muslims the most frequent name endings are Islam, Rahman, Hossain, Ahmed, Uddin, Haque, Alam, Khan, Chowdhury, Sheikh, Mia and, for women, Akter, Begum, Khatun and Sultana. Among Bangladeshi Hindus the leading surnames are Das, Saha, Roy, Pal, Mondal, Biswas, Sarkar, Debnath and Karmakar. Barua, Chakma and Marma dominate in Chittagong and the hill tracts.

How is a Bangladeshi name different from a Bengali name?

Bengali covers both Bangladesh and West Bengal in India. West Bengal is mostly Hindu, so Bengali names there lean on Banerjee, Chatterjee, Ghosh and Bose. Bangladesh is mostly Muslim, so Bangladeshi names lean on Arabic-Persian compounds like Mahbubur Rahman and Nasrin Sultana, with hereditary names like Talukdar, Bhuiyan and Sikder that are rare across the border. This generator focuses on the Bangladeshi side.

Why do so many Bangladeshi women's names end in Akter or Begum?

Begum and Khatun were honorific titles that became fixed name endings, and Akter (from the Persian akhtar, star) followed the same path in the twentieth century. They function as a surname on documents even though they are not inherited, which is why Sharmin Akter and her mother Rokeya Begum share no name element at all.

Can I use these names for fiction, games or test data?

Yes. Every name is assembled from common Bangladeshi given names and surnames rather than copied from a specific public figure, so they read as authentic without pointing at a real person. For a novel, match the name to the character's religion, region and generation; for a database, the mix of Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Christian and indigenous names gives a realistic spread.

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This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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A: 41 names

  • Abdul Awal Mia
  • Abdul Goni
  • Abdul Karim
  • Abdul Khaleque
  • Abdul Latif Pramanik
  • Abdul Muktadir Choudhury
  • Abdur Rahim Sheikh
  • Abdur Rahman
  • Abdus Sattar
  • Abu Bakar Siddique
  • Abu Sayeed
  • Abul Kalam Azad Mia
  • Afrin Sultana
  • Afroza Parvin
  • Afzal Hossain Khondoker
  • Ahsan Habib
  • Aktaruzzaman
  • Albert Corraya
  • Altab Hossain Sheikh
  • Amal Krishna Roy
  • Anil Gonsalves
  • Anisul Haque Choudhury
  • Anita Sangma
  • Anjan Roy
  • Anupam Barua
  • Arafat Rahman
  • Archana Roy
  • Arif Hossain Khan
  • Asaduzzaman
  • Ashim Rozario
  • Ashraful Alam Chowdhury
  • Asif Iqbal Khan
  • Atik Rahman
  • Atiqur Rahman
  • Aung Kyaw Marma
  • Aung Sai Marma
  • Ayaan Rahman
  • Ayesha Siddiqua
  • Ayra Hossain
  • Ayub Ali Fakir
  • Aziz Ahmed

B: 20 names

  • Babul Akter
  • Badal Chandra Das
  • Badrul Alam
  • Belal Hossain
  • Belal Uddin Sikder
  • Bernard Gomes
  • Bidhan Chakma
  • Bijoy Singha
  • Bikram Tripura
  • Bimal Kanti Chakma
  • Bina Pal
  • Biplob Saha
  • Bipul Barua
  • Biren Kisku
  • Bishwajit Das
  • Bithi Khatun
  • Bodhi Barua
  • Bulbul Ahmed Molla
  • Bulbuli Debnath
  • Bushra Afreen

C: 3 names

  • Chaing Thoai Marma
  • Chandana Pal
  • Clara Rodrigues

D: 9 names

  • Daniel Palma
  • Deepto Roy
  • Dilruba Begum
  • Dipa Roy
  • Dipak Tripura
  • Dipankar Barua
  • Dipankar Roy
  • Dipti Chakma
  • Dulal Mia

E: 7 names

  • Ekramul Haque
  • Ektiar Uddin
  • Elias Dewan
  • Emon Hossain
  • Enamul Haque Mollah
  • Enamul Kabir
  • Ershad Ali

F: 10 names

  • Fahim Rahman
  • Faisal Mahmud
  • Farhan Labib
  • Farhana Yasmin
  • Fariha Tasnim
  • Faruk Ahmed
  • Fatema Khatun
  • Feroza Begum
  • Firoz Mahmud
  • Francis Gomes

G: 3 names

  • Golam Mostafa
  • Golam Rabbani
  • Gopal Shil

H: 9 names

  • Hafez Mohammad Bashir
  • Halima Khatun
  • Haripada Das
  • Harun-or-Rashid
  • Hasan Ali Sheikh
  • Hasan Mahmud
  • Hasib Chowdhury
  • Helal Uddin
  • Hosne Ara

I: 7 names

  • Ibrahim Sikder
  • Idris Ali
  • Ifti Ahmed
  • Iqbal Hossain
  • Ishrat Jahan
  • Ismail Hossain
  • Ismat Ara

J: 16 names

  • Jabbar Mollah
  • Jahangir Kabir
  • Jahidul Islam
  • Jalal Ahmed
  • Jamal Uddin Ahmed
  • Jamila Khatun
  • Jannatul Ferdous
  • Jasim Uddin
  • Jayanti Dev
  • Jewel Rana
  • Jharna Bhowmik
  • Jisan Mahmud
  • Johny D'Silva
  • Joseph Costa
  • Joy Sarkar
  • Jubaida Begum

K: 27 names

  • Kabir Ahmed
  • Kabita Barman
  • Kajol Rani Das
  • Kalam Mia
  • Kalpana Saha
  • Kalu Miah
  • Kamal Pasha
  • Kamal Tripura
  • Kamal Uddin Bhuiyan
  • Kamrul Hasan
  • Kamrun Nahar
  • Kamrunnahar Akter
  • Karim Bepari
  • Kartik Baskey
  • Kartik Chandra Pal
  • Kasem Molla
  • Kazi Nasrin Sultana
  • Kazi Shahidul Alam
  • Khairul Alam
  • Khaleda Akter
  • Khalilur Rahman
  • Kohinoor Akter
  • Korban Ali
  • Kristina Chisim
  • Kuddus Ali
  • Kyaw Nu Marma
  • Kyaw Sein Marma

L: 10 names

  • Labib Hasan
  • Laila Arjumand
  • Lakshmi Debi Sinha
  • Lakshmi Sutradhar
  • Lamia Mahbub
  • Lamiya Akter
  • Lipi Akter
  • Lipton Das
  • Lovely Yasmin
  • Lutfun Nahar

M: 69 names

  • Ma Hla Marma
  • Ma Sai Marma
  • Mahbuba Sultana
  • Mahbubur Rahman Talukdar
  • Mahfuz Alam
  • Mahfuza Khanam Poly
  • Mahfuzur Rahman Bhuiyan
  • Mahmuda Khanam
  • Majed Talukder
  • Maksuda Begum
  • Maliha Tabassum
  • Mamata Karmakar
  • Mamun Kabir
  • Mangal Hansda
  • Marufa Akter
  • Mary D'Costa
  • Marzia Khatun
  • Masuda Begum
  • Masum Ahmed
  • Masum Billah
  • Matiur Rahman Khandaker
  • Md. Abdul Mannan
  • Md. Abu Taher
  • Md. Nurul Islam
  • Md. Rafiqul Islam
  • Md. Sohrab Hossain
  • Meher Afroz
  • Meherun Nesa
  • Mehnaz Karim
  • Mehrab Hossain
  • Michael Gomes
  • Minara Begum
  • Mir Mosharraf Ali
  • Misbah Uddin Siraj

M, continued

  • Mita Biswas
  • Mithila Rahman
  • Mithu Barua
  • Mithun Karmakar
  • Mithun Saha
  • Mizanur Rahman
  • Mofakkharul Islam
  • Mofizul Islam
  • Moinuddin Khan
  • Mokbul Hossain
  • Mokbul Mridha
  • Mokhlesur Rahman Khan
  • Moklesur Rahman
  • Mong Ching Marma
  • Mong Prue Marma
  • Monikanta Chakma
  • Monir Hossain
  • Monjur Morshed
  • Montu Mia
  • Morshed Alam
  • Morsheda Begum
  • Moshiur Rahman Joarder
  • Moslem Uddin Mia
  • Mostafizur Rahman
  • Mostak Ahmed
  • Mostaque Hossain Chowdhury
  • Moumita Roy
  • Mozammel Hossain Munshi
  • Mrittika Marak
  • Mst. Rabeya Akter
  • Mst. Rahima Begum
  • Mst. Sufia Khatun
  • Mukta Akter
  • Muktar Hossain
  • Munmun Sultana

N: 31 names

  • Nabila Siddique
  • Nadia Islam
  • Nadim Mahmud
  • Nahid Sultana
  • Naima Islam
  • Nasima Begum
  • Nasir Uddin Akond
  • Nawshin Tabassum
  • Nazia Haque
  • Nazma Begum
  • Nazmul Huda Sarker
  • Nazrul Islam Sikder
  • Nikhil Karmakar
  • Nikhil Sangma
  • Niloy Das
  • Nipa Akter
  • Niranjan Chakma
  • Nirmal Majumdar
  • Nishan Chowdhury
  • Nishat Tasnim
  • Nitai Chandra Sarkar
  • Nizam Uddin Jewel
  • Nobel Saha
  • Nur Alam Sikder
  • Nur Mohammad Bhuiyan
  • Nurul Haque Akond
  • Nurul Huda
  • Nurunnabi Chowdhury
  • Nusrat Jahan
  • Nusrat Sultana
  • Nuzhat Nabila

O: 4 names

  • Omar Faruk
  • Orin Chowdhury
  • Osman Goni Patwary
  • Ovi Rahman

P: 18 names

  • Pallab Barua
  • Parboti Roy
  • Parul Akter
  • Parvez Mosharraf
  • Parvin Akter
  • Peter Rozario
  • Piyas Hossain
  • Polash Sangma
  • Poly Akter
  • Popy Khatun
  • Pranto Kumar Das
  • Prasanta Sutradhar
  • Prionty Islam
  • Priyanka Chakma
  • Proshanto Ghosh
  • Puja Saha
  • Pulak Debnath
  • Purnima Shil

R: 63 names

  • Rabeya Sultana
  • Rafi Ahmed
  • Rafi Uddin
  • Rafiqul Alam
  • Rafiqul Islam Sarker
  • Rafsan Jani
  • Rahat Khan
  • Rahela Khatun
  • Rahim Sheikh
  • Rahima Khatun
  • Raihan Uddin
  • Raisa Mahmud
  • Raju Ahmed
  • Rakib Hasan Shuvo
  • Rakibul Hasan
  • Ramisa Anjum
  • Ramjan Ali Sardar
  • Ranjit Bhowmik
  • Rasel Ahmed
  • Rasheda Khatun
  • Rashedul Islam
  • Rasheed Uddin
  • Rashida Begum
  • Ratan Biswas
  • Ratna Akter
  • Ratna Hansda
  • Ratna Sikder
  • Redwan Ahmed
  • Reena Gomes
  • Rehana Parvin
  • Reshma Akter

R, continued

  • Rezaul Karim
  • Rezwan Ahmed Dewan
  • Rina Begum
  • Rina Biswas
  • Rina Khatun
  • Rina Sinha
  • Ripa Sultana
  • Ripon Sikder
  • Rita Akter
  • Rita D'Costa
  • Rita Tripura
  • Robin Murmu
  • Rokeya Khatun
  • Rokeya Sultana
  • Rony Biswas
  • Rownak Jahan
  • Rubaiya Jahan
  • Rubel Barua
  • Rubel Hossain
  • Rubel Talukdar
  • Ruhul Amin
  • Rukhsana Akter
  • Ruma Barua
  • Ruma Khatun
  • Ruma Pereira
  • Rumana Sultana
  • Rumi Begum
  • Runa Akter
  • Rupa Sikder
  • Rupali Soren
  • Rupayan Chakma
  • Ruth Mrong

S: 102 names

  • Sa Nu Marma
  • Sabbir Ahmed
  • Sabiha Zaman
  • Sabikun Nahar
  • Sabina Yeasmin
  • Sabrina D'Rozario
  • Sadia Afrin
  • Sadman Sakib
  • Safia Begum
  • Sagarika Chakma
  • Sahabuddin Ahmed
  • Sahera Khatun
  • Sai Nu Marma
  • Saimon Islam
  • Sajeda Begum
  • Sajib Ahmed
  • Sajjad Hossain
  • Sakib Al Mamun
  • Sakib Chowdhury
  • Salam Joarder
  • Samiha Haque
  • Samsul Haque
  • Sandhya Rani Pal
  • Sanjay Pal
  • Sanjida Sultana
  • Sanjoy Singha
  • Sathi Rani Shil
  • Sattar Hawlader
  • Sekandar Ali Howlader
  • Selina Akter
  • Shadman Rahman
  • Shafiq Choudhury
  • Shafiqul Alam Talukder
  • Shafiqul Islam
  • Shah Alam
  • Shahadat Hossain
  • Shahed Alam
  • Shahida Begum
  • Shahidul Islam Khokon
  • Shahin Alam
  • Shahinur Rahman
  • Shaila Rahman
  • Shakila Akter
  • Shamim Ahmed
  • Shamim Reza
  • Shampa Begum
  • Shamsuddin Ahmed
  • Shamsul Alam Sarker
  • Shanta Islam
  • Shanti Bikash Chakma
  • Shanto Islam

S, continued

  • Sharifa Khatun
  • Shariful Islam
  • Sharmin Akter
  • Shawon Bhuiyan
  • Shefali Begum
  • Shefali Rani Das
  • Sheikh Fazlul Karim
  • Sheikh Mohammad Shahin
  • Sheuli Akter
  • Shikha Rani Roy
  • Shilpa Mondal
  • Shilpi Akter
  • Shilpi Barua
  • Shimul Barua
  • Shireen Sultana
  • Shirin Akhter
  • Shohidul Haque
  • Shoma Akter
  • Shrabonti Debnath
  • Shuvo Ahmed
  • Shyamoli Tudu
  • Sinthia Akter
  • Sirajul Islam
  • Sobhan Mia
  • Sohel Rana
  • Sonia Akter
  • Sourav Das
  • Sourav Ghosh
  • Steven Rozario
  • Subha Karim
  • Subrata Biswas
  • Subrata Pal
  • Sudhir Sarkar
  • Sujan Barua
  • Sujan Marandi
  • Sujit Pereira
  • Sukhi Hembrom
  • Sultan Ahmed Molla
  • Sultan Mahmud
  • Sultana Razia
  • Sumana Chakma
  • Sumon Barua
  • Sumon Debnath
  • Sumona Haque
  • Sunil Kundu
  • Supriya Chakma
  • Suraiya Begum
  • Swapan Kumar Saha
  • Syed Tanvir Ahmed
  • Syeda Farhana Ahmed
  • Sylvia D'Costa

T: 34 names

  • Tahera Khatun
  • Tahia Khan
  • Tahmid Hossain
  • Tahmina Akter
  • Tahmina Haque
  • Tajul Islam Pramanik
  • Tamanna Afroz
  • Tamanna Akter
  • Tanjil Ahmed
  • Tanjim Hasan
  • Tanmoy Roy
  • Tanzina Binte Alam
  • Tapan Barua
  • Tapan Kumar Mondal
  • Tareq Aziz
  • Tariqul Islam
  • Taslima Begum
  • Tasnia Islam
  • Tasnim Akter
  • Tasnim Jahan
  • Tawhid Islam
  • Tazin Ahmed
  • Theresa Gomes
  • Titu Mia
  • Tofail Ahmed Bhuiyan
  • Tofazzal Hossain
  • Tonmoy Saha
  • Towfiq Ahmed
  • Tripti Chakma
  • Tripti Rani Nath
  • Tuhin Reza
  • Tumpa Das
  • Turjo Roy
  • Tushar Barua

U: 5 names

  • Ujjal Barua
  • Ujjal Hossain
  • Umme Habiba
  • Umme Kulsum
  • Uttam Sarkar

W: 2 names

  • Wahida Begum
  • Wasif Ahmed

Y: 1 name

  • Yunus Ali Khan

Z: 9 names

  • Zahid Hasan
  • Zahirul Haque
  • Zakir Hossain
  • Zannatul Ferdous
  • Zarif Hossain
  • Zarin Tasnim
  • Zinnat Ara
  • Zobaida Khatun
  • Zubair Hossain