Hāji

surname · Latin script

Hāji is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 16th most common given name.

  • PKPakistan≈1 in 690(inferred from the name graph)
  • TZTanzania≈1 in 700
  • ETEthiopia≈1 in 1.8K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hāji itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)

≈540,000 named Hai, est.

#769 (measured from records)

of 15M given names, spellings grouped

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
263 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 694 (inferred from the name graph)

Pakistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
HacıLatin(measured from records)
혜지Hangul(measured from records)
ХаджиCyrillic(measured from records)
ไฮThai(measured from records)
ሀጂEthiopic(measured from records)

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Haji in PK Pakistan, TZ Tanzania, ES Spain, Hacı in TR Türkiye, Hai in VN Vietnam and ሀጂ in ET Ethiopia.

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.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)

Attested across 32 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Hāji 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.

Where Hāji is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VN Vietnam#16≈540,000 est.≈1 in 184listedHai241
PK Pakistan—≈340,000 est.≈1 in 694listedHaji66
TZ Tanzania—≈84,000 est.≈1 in 69932Haji33
TR Türkiye#65≈79,000 est.≈1 in 1K—Hacı78
ET Ethiopia—≈60,000 est.≈1 in 1.8K—ሀጂ19
AL Albania—2,215as Haxhi1 in 1.4K2.2K——
ES Spain—1461 in 343K2KHaji26

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: INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Hāji is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, Malaysia, Türkiye, India

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Haji, Ḣaji, Hājī

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Hāji under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Hāji have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 536 thousand people named Hai in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Hāji?
In Spain, the national register counted 146 people named Hāji, about 1 in 343 thousand residents.
How common is Hāji compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Hāji is the 16th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.

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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, “Hāji” — the 16th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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