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All around the world, الحاج (Haj , Lhaj , Hajj ) is a common mostly masculine, but infrequently feminine given name. The given name الحاج is habitual in Morocco, where it is quite a common principally male, but very infrequently girly name, Lebanon, where it is quite a common dominantly boy's, but infrequently girly name, and Algeria, where it is quite a common predominantly masculine, but very seldom feminine name. In absolute terms, it is the most numerous in Morocco, Algeria, and Ethiopia. Also, الحاج is the last name as well as the forename.
الحاج is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Hajj , the musical character in the musical Kismet by Alexander Borodin.