79 Abstract This paper aims to explore the impact of English on Pakistani names making them Anglicized. The local names are abbreviated in order to look modern or to show prestige on the part of the users. This phenomenon presents a discrete variety of Pakistani English (PE). The researcher conducted a corpus-based analysis (The Newspaper Analysis of 'The News', September 2017) to show the frequency of the Anglicized names. For the data analysis, the AntConc 3.2.1 was used to handle the corpus. The data were presented in the form of tables to show their frequency and percentage. The study proved that such Anglicized names in the abbreviated forms had their role in creating a new variety of Pakistani English. The results were generalized with reference to the understandability and habitual usage of such abbreviations. Keywords: Language, Variation, Anglicization, Abbreviations, Frequency, Corpus 1 Yasar Iqbal 2 Adeel Ahmad 3 Muhammad Riaz Gohar 4 Sharjeel Ashraf 1 Lecturer in English – Govt. Islamia College Civil Lines, Lahore – Pakistan 2 Lecturer – Department of English Language and Literature – Lahore Garrison University, Lahore – Pakistan 3 Assistant Professor – Degree College Gujranwala, Gujranwala – Pakistan 4 Lecturer – Department of English Language and Literature – Lahore Garrison University, Lahore – Pakistan Author's Email: yasir.iqbal00007@gmail.com Anglicization of Urdu Proper Names: A Corpus-Based Study individuals help shape national, sub- national, ethnic, and regional identities. The individuals once mark their identities; tend to sustain them in different ways. They take a start from their personal names from their peers and try to justify the meanings to the names. The social and cultural identity of the name is the one direction that is taken for granted and is then justified or Introduction Nouns are the specific words in the language of some specific area or locality. They are the common nouns, proper nouns, material nouns, abstract nouns, compound nouns, and collective ones. A further branch of nouns is called proper names. According to Joseph, E. (2004) the differences among the Vol.2 Issue 3 (January - March 2021) pp 79-88 ISSN: 2710-4923 (Online) ISSN: 2663-3485 (Print)