Shaji
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃeʒi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shaji is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Arab Emirates than in any other country. Recorded meaning: courageous, bold, brave, fearless.
- USUnited States1 in 715K(measured from records)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 5.6K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 131K
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.
- United Arab Emirates (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 157 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
courageous, bold, brave, fearless
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shaji 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Shaji | 2 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 203K | — | Shaji | 5 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 183K | listed | Shaji | 15 |
| CN China | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Shaji | 6 |
| US United States | 465 | 1 in 715K | 453 | Shaji | 157 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Shaji | 13 |
| SG Singapore | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 131K | — | Shaji | 6 |
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)
Shaji 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, courageous, bold, brave. See Shuja gles, courageous
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, courageous, bold, brave, fearless
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)
- Anil ShajiUSresearcher
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)
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)
Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 450 | #50,251 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 272 | #71,678 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Shaji mean, and where does it come from?
- courageous, bold, brave, fearless Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Shaji?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃeʒi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Shaji a male or female name?
- Shaji 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 Shaji have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Shaji in the United Arab Emirates, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shaji.
- How common is the name Shaji?
- In the United States, the national register counted 465 people named Shaji in 2020, about 1 in 715 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shajiThe 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, “Shaji”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.