Sartaj
given name · Latin script
Meaning: chief; leader
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- India (India Names Dataset): listed as female
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Sartaj is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 35K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia≈1 in 39K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 52K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈38,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)chief; leader
Cited for this meaning 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)Sartaj 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 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 31 | Sartaj | 106 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 35K | listed | Sartaj | 35 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 52K | listed | — | — |
| US United States | 336 | 1 in 990K | 295 | Sartaj | 106 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Sartaj | 4 |
| CA Canada | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 777K | 1 | Sartaj | 29 |
| NO Norway | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 428K | 34 | Sartaj | 5 |
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; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the muslim-baby-names-2000 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sartaj mean, and where does it come from?
- chief; leader Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- Is Sartaj a male or female name?
- Sartaj is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: India (India Names Dataset): listed as female; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Sartaj have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 38 thousand people named Sartaj in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sartaj.
- How common is the name Sartaj?
- In the United States, the national register counted 336 people named Sartaj in 2020, about 1 in 990 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sartajThe 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, “Sartaj”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.