Hacı
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A Muslim who has performed the Hajj; a pilgrim; a hajji
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hacı is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 16th most common given name.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- VNVietnam≈1 in 184as Hai
- PKPakistan≈1 in 694as Haji
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 Hacı itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- #769 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 263 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈540,000 named Hai, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hai in VN Vietnam, US United States, CN China and Haji in PK Pakistan, TZ Tanzania.
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(measured from records)
A Muslim who has performed the Hajj; a pilgrim; a hajji
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hacı 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #16 | ≈540,000 est. | ≈1 in 184 | listed | Hai | 241 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈340,000 est. | ≈1 in 694 | listed | Haji | 66 |
| CN China | — | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Hai | 125 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 699 | 32 | Haji | 33 |
| TR Türkiye | #65 | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Hacı | 78 |
| US United States | — | 11,511as Hai | 1 in 29K | 13K | Hai | 263 |
| AL Albania | — | 2,215as Haxhi | 1 in 1.4K | 2.2K | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
- Hacı Pashab. 1400Ottoman Grand Vizier
- Hacı Halil Pashab. 1655ALOttoman Empire politician (1655-1733)
- Mehmet Celayırb. 1849TRnot in their usual nameTurkish statesperson (1849–1940)
- Hacı Ömer Cevherib. 1887TRTurkish statesperson (1887–1952)
- Hacı Ömer Sabancıb. 1906TRTurkish businessperson (1906–1966)
- Hacı Mehmet Zorlub. 1919TRTurkish businessperson (1919–2005)
- Hacı Sabancıb. 1935TRTurkish businessperson (1935–1998)
- Hacı Karayb. 1950TRTurkish drug trafficker (1950–1994)
- Haci Senb. 1975NLnot in their usual nameDutch football player
- Gadzhi Rabadanovb. 1993RUnot in their usual nameRussian mixed martial arts fighter
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 1 country.
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Hacı mean, and where does it come from?
- A Muslim who has performed the Hajj; a pilgrim; a hajji Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Hacı a male or female name?
- Hacı 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.
- What are other forms of the name Hacı?
- In the etymology graph, Haci and Alhaji are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Hacı 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 Hacı?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,511 people named Hai in 2020, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
- How common is Hacı compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Hacı is the 16th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hac%C4%B1The 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, “Hacı” — the 16th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.