Hajar
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hajar is a given name, most frequently recorded in Morocco, where it is the 38th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: wife of Prophet Ibrahim and mother of Prophet Ismail.
- MAMorocco1 in 557◐
- KWKuwait1 in 1.5K
- ILIsrael1 in 4.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈14K ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 123 ●
- 1 in 8.6K ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
85K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled הגר in IL Israel, FR France, BR Brazil and Ჰაჯარ in GE Georgia.
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●
wife of Prophet Ibrahim and mother of Prophet Ismail
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 10 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #38 | 27,605 | 32K rec. | — | listed | Hajar | 109 |
| IL Israel | #590 | 16,254 | 19K rec. | — | 729 | הגר | 41 |
| ES Spain | — | 5,809△ | 1.3K rec. | 1 in 8.6K | 5.8K | Hajar | 54 |
| FR France | — | 5,325△ | 23 rec. | 1 in 13K | 5.3K | הגר | 4 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 3,927 | 3.7K rec. | — | — | Hajar | 37 |
| EG Egypt | — | 2,803 | 7.5K rec. | — | — | Hajar | 91 |
| SY Syria | — | 2,721 | 3.8K rec. | — | — | Hajar | 16 |
| BE Belgium | #888 | 2,041 | 739 rec. | — | 23 | Hajar | 38 |
| KW Kuwait | #157 | 1,548 | 995 rec. | — | — | Hajar | 30 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #842 | 1,529 | 647 rec. | — | listed | Hajar | 82 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,518△ | 631 rec. | 1 in 11K | 1.5K | Hajar | 27 |
| US United States | — | 1,070 | 4.4K rec. | 1 in 311K | 21K | Hajar | 123 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French40K23%
- Arabic36K21%
- Malay17K10%
- Indonesian16K9%
- Spanish15K9%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 39,919 | 23% |
| Arabic | 36,286 | 21% |
| Malay | 16,894 | 10% |
| Indonesian | 16,257 | 9% |
| Spanish | 15,458 | 9% |
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●
Hajar is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, Mother of the Prophet Isma'iil (Ishmael).
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In English, Synonym of Al-Ahsa.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, to beat up
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Aleppo; Ciudad de Mexico
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Arabic, stones
as a nameAfrican 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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1981 | 7 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1993 | 6 |
| 1994 | 8 |
| 1995 | 8 |
| 1996 | 16 |
| 1997 | 16 |
| 1998 | 9 |
| 1999 | 10 |
| 2000 | 26 |
| 2001 | 28 |
| 2002 | 17 |
| 2003 | 16 |
| 2004 | 22 |
| 2005 | 21 |
| 2006 | 27 |
| 2007 | 31 |
| 2008 | 24 |
| 2009 | 25 |
| 2010 | 36 |
| 2011 | 31 |
| 2012 | 24 |
| 2013 | 34 |
| 2014 | 28 |
| 2015 | 23 |
| 2016 | 22 |
| 2017 | 26 |
| 2018 | 24 |
| 2019 | 25 |
| 2020 | 22 |
| 2021 | 28 |
| 2022 | 24 |
| 2023 | 24 |
| 2024 | 26 |
| 2025 | 26 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 35 years between 1981–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Hajar Chenaranib. 1978IRIranian woman legislator
- Hajar Adnaneb. 1986MAMoroccan singer
- Hajar Raissounib. 1991MAMoroccan journalist
- Hajar Abulfazlb. 1993AFAfghani medical doctor and footballer
- Hajar Alkhaldib. 1995BHBahraini sprinter
- Hajar Brownb. 1996ESSpanish actress
- Hajar Eddoub. 1999MAMoroccan sprinter (born 1999)
- Hajar Dabbaghib. 1999IRIranian footballer
- Hajar Noumaactress
- Hajar PamujiIDIndonesian actor
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 55 sources across 33 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 · 211 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hajar?
- We estimate roughly 14 thousand people bear Hajar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Hajar have the most bearers?
- Hajar is most frequently recorded in Morocco, where it is most often spelled hajar.
- How common is Hajar compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Hajar is the 38th most common given name of 44,905 given names recorded there.
- Is Hajar a male or female name?
- Hajar 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.
- What does the name Hajar mean?
- Recorded meaning: wife of Prophet Ibrahim and mother of Prophet Ismail
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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, “Hajar” — the 38th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.