# Jawed

Jawed (Persian: جاويد); Javed, Javid (Urdu: جاويد); Jawed, Javed (Punjabi: ਜਾਵੇਦ), Javed, Zaved (Bengali: জাভেদ) a masculine given name of Persian origin meaning of "eternal, immortal" and is also the word for "eternity".
The name is from Modern Persian جاود "eternal". The word continues Middle Persian jāwēd, from an Old Persian *yāvaitat, ultimately from *yauu-, Iranian oblique stem of *āiuu- "age, duration", cognate with Greek αἰών "eon".
It is not a traditional given name; it was chosen as a pseudonym by 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

* Javed Khan (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
* Mubashar Jawed Akbar (born 1951), Indian journalist and author
* 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
* Jawed Wassel (1959–2001), Afghan-American film director
* 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
* Jawed Karim (born 1979), Bangladeshi-German-American computer programmer and co-founder of YouTube
* Javid Taghiyev (boxer) (born 1981), Azerbaijani boxer
* Javid Taghiyev (footballer) (born 1992), Azerbaijani footballer
* Javid James (born 1986), professional American and Canadian football wide receiver
* 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
* 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
* Jawed Ludin (born 1973), Afghan diplomat
* Javed Ahmed Khan (born 1956), politician of the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) party
* Javed Khan (born 1956), Indian politician, Minister for Disaster Management in the Government of West Bengal
* Javed Khan (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
* Jawed Siddiqi, Pakistani computer scientist
* Javed Abidi (1965-2018), director of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) in India
* Jawed Ahmad (Jojo) (1986-2009), Afghan reporter working for Canadian CTV, arrested by American troops in 2007
* 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
* Jawed Iqbal, Pakistani cartoonist
* Javed Jabbar, advertiser in Pakistan, politician, former information minister
* Javed Afridi (born 1983) ceo haier electronics and owner of Peshawar Zalmi a PSL franchise.

### Pseudonym

* Huseyn Javid (1882–1941), prominent Azerbaijani poet and playwright of the early 20th century

## 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