Khwaja
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Muslim name, from Persian: ‘master’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Khwaja is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.
- AFAfghanistan
- PKPakistan
- INIndia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Muslim name, from Persian: ‘master’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Khwaja counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 102 | Khwaja | 67 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | — | Khwaja | 17 |
| PK Pakistan | — | listed | Khwaja | 48 |
| US United States | — | 655 | — | 89 |
| SE Sweden | — | 45 | — | 5 |
| DK Denmark | — | 26 | — | — |
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 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Khwaja 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 Arabic, lord, master, a man of distinction, a high ranking person. Title of a minister or important dignitary. Khwaja Abdus Samad: see Samad. Khwaja Muin ud-Din Chishti: see Chishti. Khwaja Nazimuddin: see Nazim
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)
- Jamal Khwajab. 1926INIndian politician (1926–2020)
- Sadie Khwajaresearcher
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 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 655 | #36,724 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 537 | #40,672 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 354 | #54,522 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 102 | #28,017 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 76 | #1,101 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 45 | #13,775 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 26 | #18,439 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Khwaja mean, and where does it come from?
- Muslim name, from Persian: ‘master’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Khwaja have the most bearers?
- Khwaja is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled khwaja.
What do you want to know about Khwaja?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/khwajaThe 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, “Khwaja”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.