El-Haj
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
El-Haj is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Sudan than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 855K(measured from records)
- SDSudan≈1 in 2.5K
- TNTunisia≈1 in 28K
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.
- Sudan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sudan, 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 Elhaj in US United States, MA Morocco, SD Sudan and 2 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-Haj 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD Sudan | #116 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Elhaj | 31 |
| MA Morocco | #896 | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Elhaj | 36 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Elhaj | 7 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Elhaj | 27 |
| US United States | — | 389 | 1 in 855K | 485 | Elhaj | 122 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | El-Haj | 11 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jamal El-Hajb. 1960SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician
- Nadia Abu El Hajb. 1962USnot in their usual nameAmerican anthropologist (1962-)
- Mahmoud El-Hajb. 1985NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian association football player
- Hanane Ait El Hajb. 1994MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- In which country does El-Haj have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named El-Haj in the Sudan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elhaj.
- How common is the name El-Haj?
- In the United States, the national register counted 389 people named El-Haj in 2010, about 1 in 855 thousand residents.
- How common is El-Haj compared with other names?
- In the Sudan, El-Haj is the 116th most common surname of 11,073 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about El-Haj?
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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-hajThe 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-Haj” — the 116th most common surname in Sudan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.