Hajj

surname · Latin script

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

Hajj is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Lebanon than in any other country, where it is the 51st most common surname. In English, recorded as The pilgrimage to Mecca made by pious Muslims; one of the five pillars of Islam.

rarermore common
  • LBLebanon≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.1M
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 10K

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.

Lebanon (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,600 people, est.

Sources
166 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Lebanon, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

The pilgrimage to Mecca made by pious Muslims; one of the five pillars of Islam.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

How Hajj is read(measured from records)

Hajj is one spelling over 4 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.

  • English32%

    The pilgrimage to Mecca made by pious Muslims; one of the five pillars of Islam.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Arabic29%

    one who has been on a pilgrimage

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

    pilgrimage

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • French11%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Hajj in French.

  • Spanish7.5%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Hajj 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Hajj 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 Hajj is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LB Lebanon#51≈4,600 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Hajj74
SA Saudi Arabia—≈940 est.≈1 in 36K—Hajj39
KE Kenya—≈880 est.≈1 in 61KlistedHajj13
TZ Tanzania—≈590 est.≈1 in 99K—Hajj8
AE United Arab Emirates#871≈540 est.≈1 in 18K—Hajj61
SY Syria—≈460 est.≈1 in 42K—Hajj19
US United States—3061 in 1.1M380Hajj166
CY Cyprus#292≈120 est.≈1 in 10K—Hajj7

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)

Hajj is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Ḥājj, Ḥajj

48 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Hajj 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 Portuguese, hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

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 21 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Hajj
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020380#57,805
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010306#64,891
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000263#69,636
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Hajj mean, and where does it come from?
The pilgrimage to Mecca made by pious Muslims; one of the five pillars of Islam. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Hajj?
In the etymology graph, Haj and Hadj are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Hajj have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.6 thousand people named Hajj in Lebanon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hajj.
How common is the name Hajj?
In the United States, the national register counted 306 people named Hajj in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
How common is Hajj compared with other names?
In Lebanon, Hajj is the 51st most common surname of 45,185 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Hajj” — the 51st most common surname in Lebanon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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