Hafij
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hafij is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Pakistan it is the 51st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script.
- PKPakistan1 in 820◐
- MYMalaysia1 in 2.7K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 3.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.6K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 194 ●
- 1 in 29K ◐
across 5 countries
recorded for this name
177K records
Official registry-verified
Kazakhstan
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Hafiz in PK Pakistan, MY Malaysia, GB United Kingdom and 14 more, Hafeez in US United States, EG Egypt, CA Canada and 2 more, Хафиз in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, AZ Azerbaijan and Хафіз in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 149,674 | 78K rec. | — | 749 | Hafij | 83 |
| PK Pakistan | #51 | 121,975 | 9.4K rec. | — | 5 | Hafiz | 117 |
| MY Malaysia | #159 | 24,216 | 26K rec. | — | — | Hafiz | 76 |
| RU Russia | — | 6,937 | 4K rec. | — | #662 | Хафиз | 95 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 5,351 | 3.7K rec. | — | listed | Hafiz | 82 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #416 | 4,088 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Hafiz | 79 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 3,705 | 4.6K rec. | — | — | Hafiz | 55 |
| BD Bangladesh | #504 | 2,262 | 2.8K rec. | — | listed | Hafiz | 80 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,954 | 2.7K rec. | — | 1 | Hafiz | 69 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #387 | 1,567 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Hafiz | 65 |
| SY Syria | — | 1,335 | 3.1K rec. | — | — | Hafiz | 10 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 1,273 | 2.4K rec. | — | — | Hafiz | 18 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi67K63%
- 22K21%
- Bangla6.5K6%
- Marathi1.9K2%
- English1.9K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 66,967 | 63% |
| 22,295 | 21% | |
| Bangla | 6,480 | 6% |
| Marathi | 1,895 | 2% |
| English | 1,870 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1899 | 1 |
| 1914 | 1 |
| 1915 | 1 |
| 1916 | 1 |
| 1917 | 2 |
| 1918 | 1 |
| 1919 | 2 |
| 1920 | 2 |
| 1921 | 4 |
| 1922 | 8 |
| 1923 | 4 |
| 1924 | 14 |
| 1925 | 5 |
| 1926 | 6 |
| 1927 | 10 |
| 1928 | 14 |
| 1929 | 32 |
| 1930 | 12 |
| 1931 | 23 |
| 1932 | 42 |
| 1933 | 34 |
| 1934 | 59 |
| 1935 | 36 |
| 1936 | 40 |
| 1937 | 55 |
| 1938 | 48 |
| 1939 | 94 |
| 1940 | 72 |
| 1941 | 81 |
| 1942 | 134 |
| 1943 | 106 |
| 1944 | 145 |
| 1945 | 111 |
| 1946 | 144 |
| 1947 | 176 |
| 1948 | 143 |
| 1949 | 175 |
| 1950 | 152 |
| 1951 | 188 |
| 1952 | 244 |
| 1953 | 157 |
| 1954 | 264 |
| 1955 | 218 |
| 1956 | 246 |
| 1957 | 304 |
| 1958 | 272 |
| 1959 | 399 |
| 1960 | 288 |
| 1961 | 297 |
| 1962 | 386 |
| 1963 | 311 |
| 1964 | 435 |
| 1965 | 283 |
| 1966 | 390 |
| 1967 | 389 |
| 1968 | 368 |
| 1969 | 389 |
| 1970 | 377 |
| 1971 | 371 |
| 1972 | 413 |
| 1973 | 397 |
| 1974 | 350 |
| 1975 | 366 |
| 1976 | 438 |
| 1977 | 360 |
| 1978 | 391 |
| 1979 | 327 |
| 1980 | 353 |
| 1981 | 348 |
| 1982 | 475 |
| 1983 | 385 |
| 1984 | 449 |
| 1985 | 401 |
| 1986 | 375 |
| 1987 | 342 |
| 1988 | 340 |
| 1989 | 294 |
| 1990 | 292 |
| 1991 | 306 |
| 1992 | 307 |
| 1993 | 307 |
| 1994 | 229 |
| 1995 | 192 |
| 1996 | 91 |
| 1997 | 64 |
| 1998 | 42 |
| 1999 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 |
| 2008 | 31 |
| 2010 | 14 |
| 2011 | 18 |
| 2012 | 8 |
| 2013 | 13 |
| 2014 | 35 |
| 2015 | 12 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 95 years between 1899–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 184 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hafij?
- We estimate roughly 1.6 thousand people bear Hafij (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Hafij have the most bearers?
- Hafij is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled hafij.
- How common is Hafij compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Hafij is the 51st most common given name of 75,254 given names recorded there.
- Is Hafij a male or female name?
- Hafij 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.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Hafij” — the 51st most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.