Elhadj
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aladʒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Elhadj is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guinea than in any other country, where it is the 35th most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 72K(inferred from the name graph)
- GNGuinea≈1 in 308
- SNSenegal≈1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Guinea (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 308 (inferred from the name graph)
≈41,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guinea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Elhadj 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GN Guinea | #35 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 308 | 5 | Elhadj | 17 |
| SN Senegal | #121 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 3 | Elhadj | 27 |
| DZ Algeria | #545 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 10K | listed | Elhadj | 30 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Elhadj | 3 |
| FR France | — | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 72K | 450 | Elhadj | 154 |
| US United States | — | 301 | 1 in 1.1M | 301 | Elhadj | 61 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 69K | 32 | Elhadj | 10 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); the dz-kaggle-names register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026. 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)
- Mansa Moussa Sidibéb. 1947GNnot in their usual nameGuinean politician
- Elhadj Abdoul Hamidou Sallb. 1950SNSenegalese writer, poet and civil servant
- Elhadj As Syb. 1954SNSenegalese diplomat
- Sani Elhadj Magorib. 1971NENigerien journalist and screenwriter
- Khalifa Elhadj Bab. 1985SNFrench association football player
- Ousmane Barryb. 1991GNnot in their usual nameGuinean footballer (born 1991)
- Elhadj Dabob. 1995SNSenegalese footballer
- Elhadj Amath Sowb. 2000SNSenegalese taekwondoin
- Elhadj Bahb. 2001GNGuinean footballer
- Ahmed Elhadj TaiebTNTunisian climate activist
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 17 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 1 | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Elhadj?
- A machine transcription gives /aladʒ/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Elhadj a male or female name?
- Elhadj 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.
- In which country does Elhadj have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41 thousand people named Elhadj in Guinea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elhadj.
- How common is the name Elhadj?
- In the United States, the national register counted 301 people named Elhadj in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Elhadj compared with other names?
- In Guinea, Elhadj is the 35th most common given name of 523 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Elhadj?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elhadjThe 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, “Elhadj” — the 35th most common given name in Guinea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.