Najar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: l.most probably a habitational name from Najar, Alacant
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/naxaɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Najar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 101K
- TNTunisia≈1 in 6.5K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 166 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
l.most probably a habitational name from Najar, Alacant. 2. alternatively, it may be an occupational name derived from Arabic najjar ‘carpenter’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Najar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Najar | 3 |
| US United States | — | 3,296 | 1 in 101K | 3.3K | Najar | 166 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Najar | 3 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Najar | 3 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Najar | 5 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Najar | 51 |
| HN Honduras | #515 | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Najar | 12 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)
Najar 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.
Nájera, Spain
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
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)
- Judah ben Jacob Najarb. 1750TNTunisian rabbi
- Omar Najarb. 1947BRpolitician from Brazil
- Aino Kartul-Najarb. 1954EEEstonian actress, dancer and singer (1954-2019)
- Ridha Najarb. 1957TNprofessor at UQAT
- Sergiusz Najarb. 1959PLpolitician
- Mohamed Najarb. 1973TNTunisian poet
- Nate Najarb. 1981USAmerican jazz guitarist, composer and music producer
- Ines Najarb. 1983TNTunisian actress (1978 - 2025)
- Andy Najarb. 1993HNHonduran footballer
- Suheyel Najarb. 1995DEGerman association football player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.3K | #9,821 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.2K | #9,593 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.6K | #11,026 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Najar come from?
- l.most probably a habitational name from Najar, Alacant. 2. alternatively, it may be an occupational name derived from Arabic najjar ‘carpenter’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Najar?
- A machine transcription gives /naxaɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Najar mean?
- Recorded meaning: l.most probably a habitational name from Najar, Alacant.
- In which country does Najar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10.0 thousand people named Najar in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled najar.
- How common is the name Najar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,296 people named Najar in 2010, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
- How common is Najar compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Najar is the 515th most common surname of 30,461 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/najarThe 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, “Najar” — the 515th most common surname in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.