Gajjar
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Gajjar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A surname from Gujarati.
- USUnited States1 in 634K(measured from records)
- AOAngola≈1 in 41K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 186K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 186 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
≈810 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname from Gujarati.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gajjar 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 328K | — | Gajjar | 3 |
| AO Angola | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Gajjar | 1 |
| US United States | 525 | 1 in 634K | 789 | Gajjar | 186 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 186K | — | Gajjar | 14 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 215K | — | Gajjar | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 246K | — | Gajjar | 71 |
| CA Canada | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 250K | — | Gajjar | 43 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
- Tribhuvandas Kalyandas Gajjarb. 1863INindustrial chemist, educator and industrialist from India
- Monal Gajjarb. 1991INIndian actress
- Vishal GajjarUSresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-8604-106X
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 789 | #31,440 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 525 | #41,426 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 278 | #66,476 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Gajjar mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Gujarati. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Gajjar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 813 people named Gajjar in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gajjar.
- How common is the name Gajjar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 525 people named Gajjar in 2010, about 1 in 634 thousand residents.
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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, “Gajjar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.