Sartaj

given name · Latin script

Meaning: chief; leader

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Sartaj is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 33K
  • NONorway≈1 in 400K

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.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈14,000 people, est.

Sources
106 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)

Pakistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

chief; leader

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)

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.

Where Sartaj is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan≈14,000 est.≈1 in 17KlistedSartaj35
SA Saudi Arabia≈1,000 est.≈1 in 33Klisted——
US United States3361 in 990K295Sartaj106
ID Indonesia≈230 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Sartaj4
CA Canada≈80 est.≈1 in 472K1Sartaj29
AT Austria≈17 est.≈1 in 518K3——
NO Norway≈14 est.≈1 in 400K34Sartaj5

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: 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); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sartaj is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Sartāj, Šartaj

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Canada

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Sartäj, Šartaj

  • Croatian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, India

    Also written Šartaj

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Sartaj
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020295#27,293
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202041#27,293
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—34#14,922
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)202128—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)202222—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)200921—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)202420—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201820—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201919—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202118—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)201814—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)200414—

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 recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Sartaj have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Sartaj in Pakistan, 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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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 2026-10-10.

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