Haj
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hˈædʒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Haj 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.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 184as Hai(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 694as Haji
- TZTanzania≈1 in 699as 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 Haj 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 184 (inferred from the name graph)
≈540,000 named Hai, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est., as Hai
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hai in VN Vietnam, US United States, CN China, Haji in PK Pakistan, TZ Tanzania and Hacı in TR Türkiye.
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.
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Haj is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, hair
as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian
In Polish, high (period of euphoria from an intake of drugs)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, second-person singular imperative of hájit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, hair (of the head, excluding facial hair)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hsb, grove; woods; small forest
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, shark
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Oleksandr Haib. 1914UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian actor (1914-2000)
- Samar Haj Hassanb. 1963JOJordanian politician
- Maha Hajb. 1970ILPalestinian screenwriter and film director
- Pavlo Hai-Nyzhnykb. 1971UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian writer and historian
- Oleksiy Haib. 1982UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian footballer
- Jordan Hajb. 1988CZCzech musician and actor
- Youssef Al Hajb. 1999LBLebanese footballer
- Ali Al Hajb. 2001LBLebanese footballer
- Anas Haj Mohamedb. 2005ITTunisian 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 359 | #60,581 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 269 | #72,332 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 189 | #90,652 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- How do you pronounce Haj?
- A machine transcription gives /hˈædʒ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- What are other forms of the name Haj?
- In the etymology graph, Hajj is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Haj 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 Haj?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,511 people named Hai in 2020, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
- How common is Haj compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Haj is the 16th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about 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/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, “Haj” — the 16th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.