Širaj
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Širaj is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: lamp, light, the sun, candle.
- ESSpain1 in 64K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 274K
- DKDenmark1 in 345K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)
943 people, 2020
Reference-verified
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
lamp, light, the sun, candle
Sources 2
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Širaj 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 943 | 1 in 353K | 880 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 777 | 1 in 64K | 777 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 63 | 1 in 274K | 63 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 17 | 1 in 345K | 17 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 13 | 1 in 2.9M | 13 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 9 | 1 in 619K | 32 | — | — |
943 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Širaj mean, and where does it come from?
- lamp, light, the sun, candle Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- In which country does Širaj have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 943 people named Širaj, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Širaj most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Širaj is densest in Spain — about 1 in 64 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Širaj?
- In the United States, the national register counted 943 people named Širaj in 2020, about 1 in 353 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1irajThe 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, “Širaj”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.