Imran

Imran
Pronunciation	Arabic: [ʕɪmraːn]
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Hebrew
Meaning	Amram
Region of origin	Arabic
Other names
Related names	Amram, Joachim

Imran (also transliterated as Emran, Emraan, Omran, Umran, Emrah (Turkish) or Amram (in the Bible) Arabic: عمران‎‎) is an Arabic male given name. The name Imran is a Quranic name and meaning of the name is Population. It may refer to:

Places

• Amir Imran, a town in Kermanshah Province, Iran

Given name

• Imran (father of Maryam), the father of Mariam (Mary) in the Quran
• Al Imran, the 3rd Chapter in the Quran
• Imran Abbas, Pakistani actor
• Imran Abbas, Pakistani cricketer
• Imran Ahmed, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Imran Arif, Pakistani-born English cricketer
• Imran Aslam, Pakistani journalist and media personality
• Imran Awan, Pakistani born American cricketer
• Emran Barakzai, Afghani-Dutch football player
• Emran bin Bahar, Bruneian diplomat
• Imran Farhat (born 1982), Pakistani cricketer
• Imraan Faruque, American designer and author
• Imran Garda, Qatari news anchor
• Emraan Hashmi, Indian actor
• Imran Hashmi, Pakistani footballer
• Imran ibn Husain, one of the Companions of Muhammad and a narrator of Hadith
• Imran Hussain, Pakistani footballer
• Imran Jafferally, West Indies cricketer
• Omran Jesmi, Emirati footballer
• Imran Ullah Khan, Pakistani Army general
• Imraan Khan, South African cricketer
• Imran Khan (born 1952), Pakistani cricketer and politician
• Imran Khan (Trinidad and Tobago cricketer), West Indian cricketer
• Imran Khan (actor) (born 1983), Indian actor
• Imran Khan (singer), Dutch-born Pakistani Punjabi singer
• Emran Mian, British Pakistani author
• Imran Momina, Pakistani pianist and composer
• Abu Talib ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib (549-619), uncle of Muhammad, his first name is believed to be Imran
• Imran Majid, English pool player
• Imran Mohamed, Maldivian footballer
• Imran Niazi, Pakistani footballer
• Imran Nazir (born 1981), Pakistani cricketer
• Imran Parvez, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Imran Rahim, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Imran ibn Shahin, Nabataean founder of a state in the Batihah
• Imran Sherwani, English field hockey player
• Imran Tahir, Pakistani-born South African cricketer
• Imran Usmanov, Chechen musician
• Imran Yusuf, Kenyan-born British stand-up comedian
• Omran Zoabi, Syrian politician
• Emraan Hashmi, Indian actor

Surname

• Ahmed Omran, Egyptian footballer
• Aseel Omran, Saudi singer
• Mir Imran, Indian entrepreneur and venture capitalist
• Mohammad Reithaudin Awang Imran, Malaysian footballer
• Muhammad Imran, Pakistani hockey player
• Muhammad Umran, former Syrian defense minister
• Nabil Omran, Libyan futsal player
• Sheikh Tushar Imran (born 1983), Bangladeshi cricketer
• Tariq Imran, Pakistani Olympian

Fictional characters

• Ali Imran, the protagonist of the Imran Series
• Imran Zakhaev, the main antagonist of the game Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Other uses

• Al-i-Imran, the third sura of the Qur'an
• Imran Series, Pakistani Ibn-e-Safi’s best-selling Urdu spy novels series