The Siddiqui surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 8,502 people carried this name — #4,169 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 34,700 people counted. That is up 70% from 4,994 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 70 people named Siddiqui live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
68 people named Siddiqui live in Switzerland.
They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
174 people named Siddiqui are counted in Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Siddiqui,
with a public archive behind them.
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Danish Siddiqui 1983–2021 · photojournalist -
Irfan Siddiqui 1949–2025 · writer
Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped — Danish Siddiqui: Andrew Lih, CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · 52 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Siddiqui,
in the records of the United States.
Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.
United States1 record
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Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s Alien registration Khalil U. SiddiquiBorn 1922 in India. Listed in the U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955.
U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain)
Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form AR-3, photo by Bobjgalindo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Siddiqui.
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