Benazir (بے نظیر) is the Persian-Urdu word for "without equal, unparalleled." Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007) was the two-time Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988-1990, 1993-1996) — the first woman democratically elected to lead a Muslim-majority country. Daughter of executed PM Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, she was educated at Harvard and Oxford and assassinated by a gunman-bomber in Rawalpindi while campaigning for a third term in 2007. *Her Daughter of the East (1988) remains the definitive memoir of South Asian political dynasty.*
Recipient of the UN Human Rights Award (2008, posthumous) and the Galileo 2000 Prize (2008).
Benazir does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Benazir reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.