Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Persian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2011. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sardar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 17
- 17 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,556 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,556 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 499 as a first name in 2020; 906 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sardar’s family of names
Sardar has a related form in Sirdar. In Greek usage, Sardar as a surname is a transliteration of Σαρδάρ.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sardar
- Buta SinghIndian politician1934–2021
- Ayaz SadiqPakistani politicianborn 1954
- Hukam SinghIndian politician (1895-1983)
- Sardar Ajit SinghIndian dissident1881–1947
- Sardar Ibrahim KhanPakistani politician (1915-2003)
- Sardar IravaniSardār-e Īravānī, title of governor of Yerevan
- Sardar Fazlul KarimBangladeshi philosopher1925–2014
- Muhammad AslamPakistani judge1947–2020
- Muhammad Abdul Qayyum KhanPakistani politician (1924-2015)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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