Qazi
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- KAH-zee
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,021 for boys
Qazi is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “judge”. In 2025 it ranked 3,021st for boys in the UK (7 babies).
What does Qazi mean?
Arabic: South Asian form of qadi
“judge”
A qadi is a judge of Islamic law; in South Asia Qazi is also a family name among descendants of such judges.
Is Qazi a girl's or a boy's name?
Qazi is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Qazi in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,021st among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 43,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the UK were named Qazi, making it the 3,021st most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,025th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 7 boys.
2025 had more boys named Qazi than any year since 2008.
Half of all the boys named Qazi in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 22 boys in the UK were given Qazi or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,165, up from #3,021 for this spelling alone.
- Kazi 15
- Qazi 7
Among boys in 2025, it was 2,938th in England and Wales.
Qazi in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #3,021 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,188 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,025 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,126 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 5 | #3,655 |
| 2015 | 3 | #4,955 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,008 |
| 2012 | 5 | #3,572 |
| 2011 | 6 | #3,038 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,026 |
| 2009 | 4 | #3,909 |
| 2008 | 7 | #2,616 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 4 | #3,330 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 4 | #2,990 |
| 2002 | 5 | #2,358 |
Names like Qazi
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ahmed, Muhammad, Abdullah, Zayan, Rafi, Zayaan, Musa, Mustafa, Rayyan, Azaan, Musab, Zayd
Other spellings of Qazi
Names related to Qazi
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Qazi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/qazi, updated 20 October 2026.