Minhaj
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Minhaj is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. Recorded meaning: way; road.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 4.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M
- PKPakistan≈1 in 23K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈35,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
way; road
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Where in the world(measured from records)
Minhaj 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #644 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Minhaj | 66 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | Minhaj | 45 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 44K | listed | Minhaj | 21 |
| LK Sri Lanka | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Minhaj | 9 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Minhaj | 16 |
| US United States | — | 190 | 1 in 1.8M | 164 | Minhaj | 96 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Minhaj | 7 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Minhaj 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 Arabic, method, system, order, way.* JS! Lalgiey dc pt pSie lea "For each We have appointed a (divine) law and a way of life." (surat al-Maa’idah 5:48). Minhaj al-Siraj: thirteenth-century historian of India
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, method, system, order, way, road
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)
- Hasan Minhajb. 1985USAmerican actor and comedian
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 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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 Minhaj mean, and where does it come from?
- way; road Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- Is Minhaj a male or female name?
- Minhaj is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Minhaj have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 35 thousand people named Minhaj in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled minhaj.
- How common is the name Minhaj?
- In the United States, the national register counted 190 people named Minhaj in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
- How common is Minhaj compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Minhaj is the 644th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/minhajThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Minhaj” — the 644th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.