El-Hadji
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
El-Hadji is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country, where it is the 29th most common given name.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 180(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 65K
- USUnited States1 in 642K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Senegal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 145 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 180 (inferred from the name graph)
≈88,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Elhadji in FR France, US United States, SN Senegal and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
El-Hadji counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | #29 | ≈88,000 est. | ≈1 in 180 | 94 | Elhadji | 53 |
| NE Niger | #203 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 6K | 3 | Elhadji | 13 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Elhadji | 5 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Elhadji | 145 |
| ML Mali | #882 | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Elhadji | 10 |
| US United States | — | 518 | 1 in 642K | 514 | Elhadji | 116 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is El-Hadji a male or female name?
- El-Hadji is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does El-Hadji have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 88 thousand people named El-Hadji in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elhadji.
- How common is the name El-Hadji?
- In the United States, the national register counted 518 people named El-Hadji in 2020, about 1 in 642 thousand residents.
- How common is El-Hadji compared with other names?
- In Senegal, El-Hadji is the 29th most common given name of 3,375 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about El-Hadji?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/el-hadjiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “El-Hadji” — the 29th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.