Hajah

given name · Indonesian · Latin script

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

Hajah is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia. In Brunei it is the 7th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Indonesian and Malay, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • MYMalaysia1 in 34K◐
  • BNBrunei1 in 238
  • IDIndonesia1 in 168K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

3.2K ●

in 5 countries

Sources
54 ●

2.0K records

Official registry-verified

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Hajah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MY Malaysia—1,9011K rec.——Hajah24
ID Indonesia—53983 rec.——Hajah45
US United States—314304 rec.——Hajah54
BN Brunei#780240 rec.——Hajah23
GB United Kingdom—3721 rec.——Hajah13
IN India—3650 rec.——Hajah7
SY Syria—3566 rec.——Hajah6
SG Singapore—3353 rec.——Hajah7
SA Saudi Arabia—254 rec.——Hajah6
AU Australia—1317 rec.——Hajah10
PH Philippines—1131 rec.——Hajah5
NG Nigeria—1014 rec.——Hajah5

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Indonesian1.1K31%
  • Malay1K29%
  • English75222%
  • Arabic2116%
  • Swahili652%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Indonesian1,08131%
Malay1,00629%
English75222%
Arabic2116%
Swahili652%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Hajah is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name60 records spelled Hajah2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brunei

    Also written Ḥājah

29 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●

Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Hajah
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SL Sierra LeoneNEC/ECSL — 2018 Local Council, Chairperson and Mayor nominated candidates20181#45

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hajah?
Our records include 3,206 bearers of Hajah across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Hajah have the most bearers?
Hajah is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled hajah.
How common is Hajah compared with other names?
In Brunei, Hajah is the 7th most common given name of 142 given names recorded there.
Is Hajah a male or female name?
Hajah is a female 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

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Hajah” — the 7th most common given name in Brunei. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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