Haj
surname · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Haj is a surname, most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is the 69th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and French, written in the Latin script.
- VNVietnam1 in 112◐
- TRTürkiye1 in 574
- KRSouth Korea1 in 2K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈20K ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 232 ●
- 1 in 1.4K ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
1.6M records
Official registry-verified
Albania
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Haji in IN India, MY Malaysia, PK Pakistan and 6 more, Hai in VN Vietnam, US United States, AU Australia and 5 more, Hacı in TR Türkiye, NL Netherlands, SY Syria and 2 more and Хаджи in RU Russia, 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.
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #69 | 940,663 | 950K rec. | — | — | Hacı | 73 |
| VN Vietnam | #15 | 759,329 | 402K rec. | — | listed | Hai | 232 |
| IN India | — | 74,733 | 41K rec. | — | 4.4K | Haji | 74 |
| KR South Korea | #402 | 31,559 | 15K rec. | — | — | 혜지 | 65 |
| MY Malaysia | #911 | 13,716 | 14K rec. | — | — | Haji | 45 |
| AU Australia | #968 | 9,871 | 10K rec. | — | 4 | Hai | 120 |
| US United States | — | 9,174 | 131K rec. | 1 in 36K | 13K | Hai | 219 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 8,314 | 8.3K rec. | — | listed | Hai | 92 |
| DE Germany | — | 8,064 | 9.1K rec. | — | 2 | Hai | 116 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 7,350 | 5K rec. | — | listed | Haji | 59 |
| CN China | — | 6,376 | 2K rec. | — | listed | Hai | 107 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 5,136 | 2.7K rec. | 1 in 3.4K | 5.1K | Hacı | 23 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic36K48%
- French8.2K11%
- Turkish6.2K8%
- English5K7%
- German2.6K3%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 35,798 | 48% |
| French | 8,206 | 11% |
| Turkish | 6,219 | 8% |
| English | 4,957 | 7% |
| German | 2,557 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Haj is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, hair
as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian
In Polish, high (period of euphoria from an intake of drugs)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, second-person singular imperative of hájit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, hair (of the head, excluding facial hair)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hsb, grove; woods; small forest
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, shark
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
- Oleksandr Haib. 1914UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian actor (1914-2000)
- Samar Haj Hassanb. 1963JOJordanian politician
- Maha Hajb. 1970ILPalestinian screenwriter and film director
- Pavlo Hai-Nyzhnykb. 1971UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian writer and historian
- Oleksiy Haib. 1982UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian footballer
- Jordan Hajb. 1988CZCzech musician and actor
- Youssef Al Hajb. 1999LBLebanese footballer
- Ali Al Hajb. 2001LBLebanese footballer
- Anas Haj Mohamedb. 2005ITTunisian association football player
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●
Attested in 25 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 359 | #60,581 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 269 | #72,332 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 190 | #38,292 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 189 | #90,652 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 104 | #27,742 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 94 | #7,557 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 74 | #34,135 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 74 | #33,924 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 62 | #22,487 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 55 | #39,227 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 51 | #13,401 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 31 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 41 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Haj?
- We estimate roughly 20 thousand people bear Haj (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Haj have the most bearers?
- Haj is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled hacı.
- How common is Haj compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Haj is the 69th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
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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, “Haj” — the 69th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.