Kaji
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kaji is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Japanese, recorded as Rōmaji transcription of かじ.
- INIndia1 in 30K(measured from records)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 34K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 193K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- 1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
43,863 people
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Rōmaji transcription of かじ
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kaji is read(measured from records)
Kaji is one spelling over 3 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.
- Hindi47%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kaji in Hindi.
- Japanese8.5%
Rōmaji transcription of かじ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English6.4%
an ugly anthropomorphic spirit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Kaji 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 43,863 | 1 in 30K | 44K | Kaji | 70 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Kaji | 4 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 424K | — | Kaji | 36 |
| US United States | 276 | 1 in 1.2M | 349 | Kaji | 87 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Kaji | 7 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 193K | — | Kaji | 11 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 480K | — | Kaji | 2 |
43,863 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Kaji is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In tut-pro, animal
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Czech, first-person singular present indicative of kát
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nij, learning, study
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Indonesian, lesson, study
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)
- Chizuko Kajib. 1923JPJapanese lawyer (1923-2018)
- Kiyoshi Kajib. 1928JPJapanese politician (1928-2019)
- Tatsuo Kajib. 1928JPJapanese novelist
- Katsuyuki Kajib. 1944JPpolitician
- Kōichi Kajib. 1953JPJapanese zoologist
- Shungo Kajib. 1961JPPornographic filmmaker
- Akira Kajib. 1980JPJapanese association football player
- Masato Kajib. 1981JPJapanese actor and voice actor
- Yūki Kajib. 1985JPJapanese voice actor and singer
- Masaki Kajib. 1988JPJapanese actor (1988-)
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 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 44K | #347 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 349 | #62,049 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 276 | #70,833 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 253 | #71,808 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 46 | #2,259 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Kaji mean, and where does it come from?
- Rōmaji transcription of かじ Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Kaji have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 44 thousand people named Kaji, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaji.
- Where is Kaji most common?
- Kaji is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 30 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kaji?
- In India, the national register counted 43,863 people named Kaji, about 1 in 30 thousand 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, “Kaji”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.