Hadji
surname · Latin script
Meaning: one who has made a pilgrimage to
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hadji is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country, where it is the 47th most common surname.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 3.2K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 12K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 227 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
one who has made a pilgrimage to
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hadji is read(measured from records)
Hadji is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- French46%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hadji in French.
- English17%
one who has made a pilgrimage to
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Mecca
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Arabic12%
pilgrim who has performed hajj
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- Indonesian7.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hadji in Indonesian.
- Spanish6.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hadji in Spanish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Hadji 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | #47 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | listed | Hadji | 47 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Hadji | 37 |
| SN Senegal | #18 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 34 | Hadji | 46 |
| FR France | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 336 | Hadji | 227 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Hadji | 39 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Hadji | 14 |
| ES Spain | — | 194 | 1 in 258K | 194 | Hadji | 31 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Hadji | 9 |
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 noms de famille (1891–2000); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); the dz-kaggle-names register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Hadji 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.
In Latvian, Hādži
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Gisèle Hadji-Minagloub. 1953FRFrench architect
- François Hadji-Lazarob. 1956FRFrench actor and singer
- Mustapha Hadjib. 1971MAMoroccan and French footballer
- Youssouf Hadjib. 1980MAMoroccan and French footballer
- Karim Ali Hadjib. 1981DZassociation football player
- Samir Hadjib. 1989FRMoroccan and French footballer
- Abou El Kacem Hadjib. 1990DZAlgerian footballer
- Zachary Hadjib. 1996FRFrench and Moroccan footballer (born 1996)
- Leila Hadjib. 1998FRFrench athletics competitor (born 1998)
- Kassim Hadjib. 2000KMcomorian footballer
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 38 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 336 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 295 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 285 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 207 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 194 | #16,980 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 194 | #16,912 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 45 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 12 | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Hadji mean, and where does it come from?
- one who has made a pilgrimage to Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- What are other forms of the name Hadji?
- In the etymology graph, Hajji is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Hadji have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Hadji in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hadji.
- How common is the name Hadji?
- In Spain, the national register counted 194 people named Hadji, about 1 in 258 thousand residents.
- How common is Hadji compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Hadji is the 47th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hadji?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hadjiThe 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, “Hadji” — the 47th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.