Haji
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Swahili: Swahili: male name for boys born during the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/haʄi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Haji is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 16th most common given name.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 694(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 699
- ESSpain1 in 343K
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 Haji 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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- #769 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 263 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 694 (inferred from the name graph)
≈540,000 named Hai, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hai in VN Vietnam, CN China and Hacı in TR Türkiye.
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(measured from records)
Swahili: male name for boys born during the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca.
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Haji is read(measured from records)
Haji is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- Swahili14%
Swahili: male name for boys born during the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca.
as a nameAfrican Names
male name from hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- English12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Haji in English.
- Malay11%
hajj: the pilgrimage to Mecca made by pious Muslims; one of the five pillars of Islam
as a wordrecorded as Indonesiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Haji in Hindi.
- Arabic8.6%
title of someone who has performed Hajj
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
pilgrim who has performed hajj
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
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)
Haji 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #16 | ≈540,000 est. | ≈1 in 184 | listed | Hai | 241 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈340,000 est. | ≈1 in 694 | listed | Haji | 66 |
| CN China | — | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Hai | 125 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 699 | 32 | Haji | 33 |
| TR Türkiye | #65 | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Hacı | 78 |
| AL Albania | — | 2,215as Haxhi | 1 in 1.4K | 2.2K | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 146 | 1 in 343K | 2K | Haji | 26 |
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: INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Seiji Hajib. 1893JPJapanese novelist and editor (1893-1977)
- Masao Hajib. 1925JPJapanese political activist, mathematics lecturer and critic
- Amou Hajib. 1928IRIranian eccentric (1928–2022)
- Kazuo Hajib. 1945JPJapanese baseball player and rikishi (1945-1999)
- Kareem Hajib. 1957INvictim of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Toshiaki Hajib. 1978JPJapanese association football player
- Sherwan Hajib. 1985SYSyrian-Finnish actor
- Abdulla Hajib. 1990QAQatari tennis player
- Lamiya Aji Basharb. 1998IQnot in their usual nameYazidi human rights activist
- Talal Hajib. 2007SASaudi Arabian footballer (born 2007)
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)
Attested in 60 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 292 | #12,329 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 292 | #12,292 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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 Haji mean, and where does it come from?
- Swahili: male name for boys born during the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca. Recorded by African Names.
- What are other forms of the name Haji?
- In the etymology graph, Hajji and Hacî are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Haji?
- A machine transcription gives /haʄi/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Haji have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 536 thousand people named Hai in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Haji?
- In Spain, the national register counted 146 people named Haji, about 1 in 343 thousand residents.
- How common is Haji compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Haji is the 16th most common given name of 73,918 given names 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/hajiThe 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, “Haji” — the 16th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.