Nijjar
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nijjar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Canada than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A surname from Punjabi.
- CACanada≈1 in 44K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 134K
- USUnited States1 in 429K
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.
- Canada (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
≈850 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname from Punjabi.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nijjar 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA Canada | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Nijjar | 95 |
| US United States | 776 | 1 in 429K | 1K | Nijjar | 168 |
| KE Kenya | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Nijjar | 1 |
| AO Angola | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Nijjar | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 134K | 1K | Nijjar | 83 |
| CL Chile | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Nijjar | 2 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Nijjar | 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rob Nijjarb. 1967CACanadian politician
- Hardeep Singh Nijjarb. 1977INIndian-Canadian Sikh separatist (1977–2023)
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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1K | #6,396 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,376 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 776 | #30,202 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 509 | #40,465 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Nijjar mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Punjabi. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Nijjar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 849 people named Nijjar in Canada, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nijjar.
- How common is the name Nijjar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 776 people named Nijjar in 2010, about 1 in 429 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Nijjar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nijjarThe 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, “Nijjar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.