Jawid (), also spelled Jawed, Jawayd, Javid, Javaid, Javed and other variants, isa masculine given name of Persian origin meaning meaning "long live" or "eternal".

The name is from Modern Persian jāwid "eternal". The word continues Middle Persian jāwīd, from an Old Persian *yāvaitat, ultimately from *yauu-, Iranian oblique stem of *āiuu- "age, duration", cognate with Greek αἰών "eon".

It is also chosen as a pseudonym by some, such as Huseyn Javid (Huseyn Abdulla oglu Rasizadeh) in the early 20th century. The given name became popular among Indian Muslims from about the 1940s, and remains a popular name for baby boys in Pakistan.

List of people with this given name

Jawid

  • Jawid Mojaddedi, Afghan researcher and professor
  • Jawid Safi, Afghan cricketer

Jawed

  • Jawed Sheikh (born 1954), Pakistani actor
  • Jawed Karim (born 1979), American entrepreneur
  • Jawed Habib, Indian politician and hairstylist
  • Mubashar Jawed Akbar (born 1951), Indian journalist and author
  • Jawed Iqbal, list of people
  • Jawed Wassel (1959–2001), Afghan-American film director
  • Jawed Ludin (born 1973), Afghan diplomat
  • Jawed Karim (born 1979), Bangladeshi-German-American computer programmer and co-founder of YouTube
  • Jawed Ahmad (Jojo) (1986-2009), Afghan reporter working for Canadian CTV, arrested by American troops in 2007
  • Jawed Siddiqi, Pakistani computer scientist

Javed

  • Javed Khan (cricketer) (born 1990), Indian cricketer who plays for Mumbai
  • Javed Khan (executive), British chief executive of Barnardo's
  • Javed Khan Amrohi, Indian film and television actor
  • Javed Ali Khan (born 1962), Member of the Parliament of India representing Uttar Pradesh
  • Javed Khan Nawab Bahadur (1695–1754) head eunuch and influential court official in the late Mughal Empire
  • Javid Iqbal (judge) (Sr.) HI, (1924-2015), son of the poet-philosopher Sir Muhammad Iqbal
  • Javed Akhtar (cricketer) (1940-2016), former Pakistani cricketer
  • Javed Ashraf Qazi, HI(M), SBt, (born 1941), Pakistani general, politician, Senator in the Parliament of Pakistan
  • Javed Akhtar (born 1945), poet, lyricist and scriptwriter from India
  • Musa Javed Chohan (born 1948), the former High Commissioner of Pakistan to Canada
  • Javed Ahmad Ghamidi (born 1951), Pakistani Muslim theologian, Quran scholar and exegete
  • Javed Sheikh (born 1954), Pakistani actor, director and producer
  • Muhammad Javed Ikhlas (born 1955), Pakistani politician
  • Javed Iqbal (serial killer) (1956–2001), Pakistani serial killer
  • Javed Miandad (born 1957), former Pakistani cricketer
  • Javed Qureshi (born 1960), former Pakistani cricketer and the first captain of the Pakistan U19 cricket team
  • Javed Jaffrey (born 1963), Indian actor, dancer, comedian, impressionist
  • Javed Kurd (born 1967), Pakistani-Norwegian music producer
  • Javed Omar (born 1976), Bangladeshi cricketer
  • Javed Qadeer (born 1976), former Pakistani cricketer
  • Javid Taghiyev (boxer) (born 1981), Azerbaijani boxer
  • Javid Taghiyev (footballer) (born 1992), Azerbaijani footballer
  • Javid Huseynov (born 1988), Azerbaijani footballer
  • Javid Imamverdiyev (born 1990), Azerbaijani footballer (midfielder)
  • Javed Ahmadi (born 1992), Afghan cricketer
  • Javed Ali (born 1982), playback singer
  • Javed Ali (born 1995), Communications Advisor

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  • Agha Javed Pathan (1972-2018), political activist from Sindh, Pakistan, accused of shoe throwing on Arbab Ghulam Rahim
  • Javaid Laghari (born 1960), chairperson of the Higher Education of Pakistan
  • Javed Ahmed Khan (born 1956), politician of the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) party
  • Javed Khan (politician) (born 1956), Indian politician, Minister for Disaster Management in the Government of West Bengal
  • Javed Khan (actor) (born 1962), Indian film and television actor and former model
  • Javed Nasir (1936-2024), three-star general of the Pakistan Army
  • Javed Siddiqui (born 1942), Hindi and Urdu screenwriter, dialogue writer and playwright from India
  • Javaid Siddiqi, American educator and politician
  • Javed Abidi (1965-2018), director of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) in India
  • Javed Ashraf Bajwa, retired Pakistan Army engineer officer
  • Javed Burki (born 1938), Pakistani cricketer
  • Shahid Javed Burki (born 1938), professional economist, Vice President of the World Bank, caretaker Finance Minister of Pakistan
  • Muhammad Javed Buttar (born 1947), former justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
  • Javaid Iqbal (born 1946), justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and a former Chief Justice of High Court of Balochistan
  • Javed Hashmi (born 1948), Pakistani politician
  • Jawaid Iqbal (born 1972), Pakistani born Hong Kong cricketer
  • Javed Jabbar, advertiser in Pakistan, politician, former information minister
  • Javed Afridi (born 1983) ceo haier electronics and owner of Peshawar Zalmi a PSL franchise.

Use as a surname

;Pakistan

There is no tradition of Pakistani surnames. Jawed is not one of the traditional family names,

but it may be chosen as "secondary" name, and it may have been picked as "surname" by expatriates in western countries.

  • Hamid Javaid (1947-2019), former Pakistan Army general, Chief of Staff to President Pervez Musharraf for six years (2001–2007)
  • Kanza Javed, Pakistani author and poet
  • Tariq Javed (born 1949), Pakistani-born Canadian cricketer
  • Nasir Javed (born 1966), Pakistani born American cricketer
  • Mohammad Javed (born 1969), Pakistani cricketer
  • Aaqib Javed (born 1972), Pakistani cricketer and coach
  • Amjad Javed (born 1980), cricketer who has played one One Day International for the United Arab Emirates
  • Sana Javed (cricketer) (born 1983), Pakistani cricketer
  • Sana Javed (actress) (born 1993), Pakistani Film and Television actress

; British Pakistani

  • Sajid Javid (born 1969), Conservative Party MP
  • Umran Javed (born 1979), convicted terrorist supporter

;Iran

  • Behrouz Javid-Tehrani (born 1978), Iranian student arrested following the Iran student protests of July, 1999

Azerbaijan

  • Huseyn Javid (1882–1941), prominent Azerbaijani poet and playwright of the early 20th century<!--
  • Ghazala Javed, Pashtu singer hails from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
  • Nasr Javed, Kashmiri senior operative of the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba
  • Kashif Javed, field hockey player from Pakistan
  • Saleem Javed, Pakistani pop singer
  • Aftab Jawaid, former squash player from Pakistan
  • Nouman Javaid, Pakistani Actor and singer/musician
  • Nusrat Javed, Pakistani columnist, journalist and anchor on news television
  • Ajeet Javed, author who wrote a book on the life of Muhammad Ali Jinnah called Secular and Nationalist Jinnah

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References

See also

  • 6262 Javid (1978 RZ) is a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1978
  • Dune Javid or Children of Dune, 1976 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert
  • Hayat-i-Javed, the biography of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan by Altaf Hussain Hali, the great Urdu poet who was also his friend and associate
  • Sholay-e-Jawid meaning Eternal Flame, Maoist political party founded c. 1964 in Afghanistan
  • Javid Nama, or Book of Eternity, Persian book of poetry written by Allama Muhammad Iqbal and published in 1932
  • Junaid Javed, Pashto musical band originating from Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan