Hija

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: daughter; female equivalent of hijo

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

Hija is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TZTanzania≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 391K
  • ESSpain≈1 in 450K

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.

Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,000 people, est.

Sources
42 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)

Tanzania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

female name from hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca.

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

How Hija is read(measured from records)

Hija is one spelling over 5 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.

  • Hebrew57%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Hija in Hebrew.

  • Spanish10%

    daughter; female equivalent of hijo

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

  • English9.4%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Hija in English.

  • Swahili6.8%

    female name from hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca.

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

    pilgrimage

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

  • Arabic5.6%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Hija in Arabic.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Hija 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 Hija is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TZ Tanzania≈4,000 est.≈1 in 15K2—7
ES Spain≈110 est.≈1 in 450K—Hija42
US United States≈66 est.≈1 in 5.1MlistedHija17
CO Colombia≈42 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Hija7
DO Dominican Republic≈27 est.≈1 in 391K—Hija8
CL Chile≈17 est.≈1 in 1.1M—Hija6
PA Panama≈5 est.≈1 in 865K—Hija4
NL Netherlands51 in 3.5M5—1

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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. 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)

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

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Hïjã, Hïja

39 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)

Hija is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • daughter

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In Maltese, she (third-person feminine singular subject pronoun)

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

  • In men, v., to beat as rice, to

    as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Hija
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20075#76,598
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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

Where does the name Hija come from?
female name from hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
How do you pronounce Hija?
A machine transcription gives /ajʒə/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
What does the name Hija mean?
In Spanish, daughter; female equivalent of hijo
In which country does Hija have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named Hija in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Hija?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 5 people named Hija in 2007, about 1 in 3.5 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, “Hija”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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