Hajar
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Arabic: wife of Prophet Ibrahim and mother of Prophet Ismail
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hɑjɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hajar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country, where it is the 41st most common given name.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 357(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 2.9K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 7.1K
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 Hajar 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.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 357 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hagar in EG Egypt and הגר in IL Israel.
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)
wife of Prophet Ibrahim and mother of Prophet Ismail
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hajar is read(measured from records)
Hajar is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Arabic32%
wife of Prophet Ibrahim and mother of Prophet Ismail
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Mother of the Prophet Isma'iil (Ishmael).
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
stones
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- French22%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hajar in French.
- Malay19%
to beat up
as a wordrecorded as Indonesiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English5.7%
Synonym of Al-Ahsa.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hajar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #41 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 357 | listed | Hajar | 116 |
| AF Afghanistan | #746 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 6K | 1 | Hajar | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | 5,809 | 1 in 8.6K | 5.8K | Hajar | 51 |
| EG Egypt | #207 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Hagar | 98 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #735 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | listed | Hajar | 84 |
| IL Israel | #574 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 729 | הגר | 60 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #523 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Hajar | 66 |
| KW Kuwait | #279 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Hajar | 35 |
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: the ma-etatcivil-authorized-given-names register; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the muslim-baby-names-2000 register; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hajar is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Aleppo; Ciudad de Mexico
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
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)
- Hajar Chenaranib. 1978IRIranian woman legislator
- Hajar Adnaneb. 1986MAMoroccan singer
- Hajar Raissounib. 1991MAMoroccan journalist
- Hajar Abulfazlb. 1993AFAfghani medical doctor and footballer
- Hajar Alkhaldib. 1995BHBahraini sprinter
- Hajar Brownb. 1996ESSpanish actress
- Hajar Eddoub. 1999MAMoroccan sprinter (born 1999)
- Hajar Dabbaghib. 1999IRIranian footballer
- Hajar Noumaactress
- Hajar PamujiIDIndonesian actor
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)
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)
Attested in 56 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 5.8K | #800 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.8K | #468 |
| AF Afghanistan | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #213 |
| MA Morocco | Liste des prénoms d'usage au Maroc — official authorized given-names list | — | — | — |
| SA Saudi Arabia | Muslim Baby Names (Nishāt, 2000) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Hajar mean, and where does it come from?
- wife of Prophet Ibrahim and mother of Prophet Ismail Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Is Hajar a male or female name?
- Hajar is a female 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.
- In which country does Hajar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 100 thousand people named Hajar in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hajar.
- How do you pronounce Hajar?
- A machine transcription gives /hɑjɑɹ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- What are other forms of the name Hajar?
- In the etymology graph, Hacer, Hagar and Hadjara are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Hajar?
- In Spain, the national register counted 5,809 people named Hajar, about 1 in 8.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Hajar compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Hajar is the 41st most common given name of 41,711 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hajar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hajarThe 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, “Hajar” — the 41st most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.