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{{Infobox given name
| name = Jawed
| pronunciation= {{IPA|hns|ˈdʒaːʋɛːd|}}
| gender = masculine 
| meaning = eternal
| region = Iran
| footnotes = 
}}
{{wiktionary|جاود}}
{{wiktionary|جاوید}}

'''Jawed''' ({{langx|fa|جاويد}}); ''Javed'', ''Javid'' ({{langx|ur|جاويد}}); ''Jawed'', ''Javed'' ({{langx|pa|ਜਾਵੇਦ}}), Javed, Zaved ([[Bengali language|Bengali]]: জাভেদ) a masculine given name of [[Persian language|Persian]] origin meaning of "eternal, immortal"<ref>[http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Javed-name-meaning.ashx Name History and Origin for  Javed];
[https://web.archive.org/web/20100416142709/http://www.meaning-of-names.com/persian-names/javed.asp];
{{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20160701065511/http://www.20knames.com/always_names_forever_names.htm Persian name derived from the word jawid]}};
[http://www.behindthename.com/name/javed Javed] at behindthename.com;
[[Francis Joseph Steingass|Steingass]], ''A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary'' s.v. [https://archive.today/20130811141858/http://dsal1.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.1:1:8539.steingass جاود]</ref> and is also the word for "eternity".

The name is from [[Persian language|Modern Persian]] {{lang|fa|جاود|rtl=yes}} "eternal". The word continues [[Middle Persian]] ''jāwēd'', from an [[Old Persian]] ''*yāvaitat'', ultimately from ''*yauu-'', [[Proto-Iranian|Iranian]] oblique stem of ''[[:wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂óyu|*āiuu-]]'' "age, duration", cognate with  Greek [[:wikt:αἰών|αἰών]] "[[aeon|eon]]".<ref>Martin Schwartz, 'Pouruchista’s Gathic Wedding and the Teleological Composition of the Gathas', in: [https://archive.org/details/ExegistiMonumentaFestschriftInHonourOfNicholasSims-williamsiranica17 Exegisti Monumenta: Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams] (2009),
[http://nes.berkeley.edu/Web_Schwartz/FsNSW_Schwartz.pdf p. 441, fn 24].
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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 [[Islam in India|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 (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
*[[Javed Iqbal (judge, born 1924)|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

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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
*[[Jawed Ludin]] (born 1973), Afghan diplomat
*[[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
*[[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
*[[Javed Iqbal (judge, born 1946)|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 (cartoonist)|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
{{see|Pakistani name}}
There is no tradition of Pakistani surnames.
Jawed is not one of the traditional [[List of Pakistani family names|family names]], 
but it may be chosen as "secondary" name, and it may have been picked as "surname" by [[Pakistani diaspora|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|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
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*[[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''
-->

==References==
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==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-Jawed]] 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

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[[Category:Pakistani masculine given names]]
[[Category:Masculine given names]]
[[Category:Persian masculine given names]]