Faraji
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Swahili: consolation
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines, 2025
Faraji is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 8.1Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 8.3K
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 101K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Swahili: consolation.
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Faraji 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | 1 | Faraji | 25 |
| MA Morocco | #507 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | listed | Faraji | 44 |
| IQ Iraq | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Faraji | 6 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 163K | listed | Faraji | 10 |
| IN India | — | 337 | 1 in 3.9M | 337 | Faraji | 11 |
| BE Belgium | — | 87 | 1 in 135K | 87 | Faraji | 8 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 1 | 1 in 101K | 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; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 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)Faraji 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.
Consolation
as a nameA Handbook of African Names
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)- Farokh Farajib. 1992IRActor
- Farya FarajiIRIranian‐Canadian musician and musical historian
- Farhoud Farajiresearcher
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)33 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 337 | #12,304 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 87 | #17,356 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 1 | #261 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Faraji mean, and where does it come from?
- Swahili: consolation. Recorded by African Names.
- In which country does Faraji have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.5 thousand people named Faraji in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled faraji.
- How common is the name Faraji?
- In India, the national register counted 337 people named Faraji, about 1 in 3.9 million residents.
- How common is Faraji compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Faraji is the 507th most common surname of 211,124 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/farajiThe 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, “Faraji” — the 507th most common surname in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.