Siraj

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Siraj is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: light.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 4.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BDBangladesh≈1 in 5.8K
  • USUnited States1 in 353K

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.

Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)

≈52,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
177 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Ethiopia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SirajLatin(measured from records)
সিরাজBengali(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Siraju in SA Saudi Arabia, KW Kuwait, AE United Arab Emirates.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

light

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Siraj 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 Siraj is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ET Ethiopia—≈52,000 est.≈1 in 2.1K—Siraj9
PK Pakistan#193≈52,000 est.≈1 in 4.5KlistedSiraj72
BD Bangladesh#628≈28,000 est.≈1 in 5.8KlistedSiraj60
SA Saudi Arabia—≈7,200 est.≈1 in 4.7KlistedSiraju4
AE United Arab Emirates—≈2,500 est.≈1 in 4K—Siraju4
US United States—9431 in 353K880Siraj177
KW Kuwait—≈670 est.≈1 in 4.5K—Siraju3

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Siraj is also recorded as 4 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 Sirâj, Sirāj

  • Spanish given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Spain, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Sįrâj, Sîràj, Śiřaj, Śiràj, Siráj

  • Amharic given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ethiopia, India, United States, Pakistan

    Also written ሲራጅ, ስራጅ

  • Norwegian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Denmark, Sweden, Norway

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Sîråj, Šïřãj, Širaj, Sïrăj, Sîraaj

40 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Siraj 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.

  • In Arabic, lamp, light, the sun, candle

    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)

1940196019802000Eyad al-Sarraj, b. 1944Nader Siraj, b. 1948Mohammad Hamid Siraj, b. 1958Hesameddin Seraj, b. 1959Iram Siraj, b. 1960Daniel Kjørberg Siraj, b. 1975Farah Siraj, b. 1983Yasmin Siraj, b. 1996Sameh Al-Siraj, b. 2000

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 55 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Siraj
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020701#34,739
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010431#48,901
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000225#78,838
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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 Siraj mean, and where does it come from?
light Recorded by African Muslim Names.
Is Siraj a male or female name?
Siraj 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 Siraj have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Siraj in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled siraj.
How common is the name Siraj?
In the United States, the national register counted 943 people named Siraj in 2020, about 1 in 353 thousand residents.
How common is Siraj compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Siraj is the 193rd most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.

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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, “Siraj” — the 193rd most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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