Shiji
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Governing second [son]’; ‘excellent second [son]’ (A concise dictionary of first names)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Shiji is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia≈1 in 31K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
- USUnited States≈1 in 4Mfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
≈46,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)‘Governing second [son]’; ‘excellent second [son]’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shiji 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 51 | Shiji | 75 |
| US United States | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 4M | — | Shiji | 62 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Shiji | 3 |
| IT Italy | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Shiji | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | listed | Shiji | 18 |
| SG Singapore | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 285K | — | Shiji | 4 |
| IL Israel | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Shiji | 2 |
| IE Ireland | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Shiji | 1 |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; the hanks-first-names-2001 register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Shiji is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of しじ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mch, sound produced by demons
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shiji mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Governing second [son]’; ‘excellent second [son]’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Shiji a male or female name?
- Shiji is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people named Shiji?
- Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Shiji in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shiji. After it come United States, Indonesia, Italy and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Shiji?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3 people named Shiji in 2026, about 1 in 13 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shijiThe 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, “Shiji” — ranked 43823rd in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.