Hijab
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A traditional headscarf worn by Muslim women, covering the hair and neck
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hˈid͡ʒab/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hijab is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 2.3M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 19M
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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3M (inferred from the name graph)
5 people, 2008
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A traditional headscarf worn by Muslim women, covering the hair and neck.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hijab 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.
5 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Hijab is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, alternative spelling of Hidschab
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, hijab (headscarf)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 5 | #100,711 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #336,106 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hijab mean, and where does it come from?
- A traditional headscarf worn by Muslim women, covering the hair and neck. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Hijab?
- A machine transcription gives /hˈid͡ʒab/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- What are other forms of the name Hijab?
- In the etymology graph, Hejab and Hidjab are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Hijab have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 5 people named Hijab, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hijab most common?
- Hijab is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.3 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hijab?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 5 people named Hijab in 2008, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hijabThe 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, “Hijab”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.