Hafij
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
/ɦafid͡ʑ/(machine-generated) Bangla · model-generated · read from হাফিজ
Hafij is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 49th most common given name.
- INIndia≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.1Kas Hafiz
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 1.7Kfew recordsas Hafiz
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 Hafij 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 237 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈240,000 named Hafiz, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Hafiz in PK Pakistan, MY Malaysia, BD Bangladesh and 2 more, Hafeez in US United States and Хафиз in AZ Azerbaijan.
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)Hafij 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #49 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 5 | Hafiz | 137 |
| IN India | — | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 749 | Hafij | 89 |
| BD Bangladesh | #368 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | listed | Hafiz | 82 |
| MY Malaysia | #220 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Hafiz | 80 |
| AF Afghanistan | #329 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 2 | Hafiz | 20 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 108 | Хафиз | 13 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #327 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Hafiz | 71 |
| US United States | — | 695as Hafiz | 1 in 479K | 1.3K | Hafeez | 237 |
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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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).
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Hafij?
- In Bangla /ɦafid͡ʑ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Hafij a male or female name?
- Hafij is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: India (India Names Dataset).
- In which country does Hafij have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 235 thousand people named Hafiz in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hafij?
- In the United States, the national register counted 695 people named Hafiz in 2020, about 1 in 479 thousand residents.
- How common is Hafij compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Hafij is the 49th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hafij?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hafijThe 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, “Hafij” — the 49th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.