Hajdaj
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ha͡ɪda͡ɪ/(machine-generated) Albanian · model-generated
Hajdaj is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. Hajdaj is also written Гайдай in Cyrillic.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 191K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 1.3M
- CZCzechia1 in 1.3M
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 Hajdaj itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- 1 in 191K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,500 named Гайдай, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Hajdaj in other scripts: Cyrillic and Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Гайдай in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 more and Gaidai in EE Estonia.
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.
How to pronounce Hajdaj
- Albanian:/ha͡ɪda͡ɪ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Hajdaj is found
(measured from records)Hajdaj 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #881 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Гайдай | 39 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Гайдай | 126 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 115K | 83 | Гайдай | 31 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Гайдай | 12 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 641K | — | Гайдай | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 44 | 1 in 191K | 44 | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 17 | Gaidai | 5 |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)- Zoia Haidaib. 1902UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian opera soprano (1902–1965)
- Leonid Gaidaib. 1923RUSoviet film director (1923-1993)
- Serhiy Haidaib. 1975UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian politician, former governor of Lugansk Oblast (2019-2023)
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Hajdaj?
- In Albanian /ha͡ɪda͡ɪ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hajdaj?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.5 thousand people named Гайдай in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Uzbekistan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Hajdaj most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hajdaj is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 191 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hajdaj?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 44 people named Hajdaj in 2024, about 1 in 191 thousand residents.
- How common is Hajdaj compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Hajdaj is the 881st most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hajdajThe 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, “Hajdaj” — the 881st most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.