Hajime

given name · Latin script

Meaning: ‘Beginning’. Haruki ° ‘Springtime tree’

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/hɑˈdʒimi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Hajime is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 1.5M
  • DKDenmark1 in 1.5M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

292 people, 2020

Sources
95 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Norwegian

‘Beginning’. Haruki ° ‘Springtime tree’.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hajime 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.

Where Hajime is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2921 in 1.1M288Hajime95
BR Brazil601 in 3.5M109—1
SE Sweden71 in 1.5M7——
PL Poland61 in 6.4M6——
DK Denmark41 in 1.5M4——

292 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hajime is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Russia

    Also written Hajimé

  • Thai given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States

    Also written ฮาจิเมะ, ฮาจิเม, ฮาจิเม่, ฮาจีเมะ, ฮาจเมะ

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Saitō Hajime, b. 1844Hajime Seki, b. 1873Hajime Tamura, b. 1924Hajime Hana, b. 1930Hajime Ishii, b. 1934Hajime Kanzaka, b. 1964Hajime Moriyasu, b. 1968Hajime Kazumi, b. 1971Hajime Matsumoto, b. 1974Hajime Isayama, b. 1986

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)

Informalこんにちは、HajimeさんHi Hajime, (English)

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)

Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Hajime
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020288#30,018
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—109#17,570
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202260—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—58#58,763
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—58#45,369
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)194039—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)194021—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)192515—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)192114—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)192213—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)191713—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)191611—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens

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

How do you pronounce Hajime?
A machine transcription gives /hɑˈdʒimi/ (IPA) for Japanese.
Is Hajime a male or female name?
Hajime is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Hajime mean?
Recorded meaning: ‘Beginning’. Haruki ° ‘Springtime tree’.
In which country does Hajime have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 292 people named Hajime, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hajime.
Where is Hajime most common?
Hajime is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Hajime?
In the United States, the national register counted 292 people named Hajime in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million 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, “Hajime”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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