Hija

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Hija is a given name, most frequently recorded in Panama. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: female name from hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca.

rarermore common
  • PAPanama1 in 3.4K◐
  • TZTanzania1 in 552K
  • DODominican Republic1 in 761K

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

4.2K ●

in 5 countries

Sources
42 ●

2.8K records

Official registry-verified

Meaning & origin●

female name from hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca.

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Hija is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PA Panama#1512,0782.1K rec.——Hija5
ES Spain—121288 rec.——Hija42
US United States—8390 rec.—listedHija14
PE Peru—3067 rec.——Hija12
MX Mexico—2546 rec.——Hija11
TZ Tanzania—2417 rec.—2Hija8
PH Philippines—1713 rec.——Hija7
VE Venezuela—1318 rec.——Hija3
DO Dominican Republic—1342 rec.——Hija7
BR Brazil—1218 rec.——Hija8
CO Colombia—1235 rec.——Hija6
NL Netherlands——1 rec.—5—1

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

Languages●

  • Spanish2.4K50%
  • Swahili70115%
  • English55212%
  • Arabic4519%
  • Hindi972%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish2,39350%
Swahili70115%
English55212%
Arabic4519%
Hindi972%

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◐

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

  • French given name121 records spelled Hija3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Tanzania

    Also written Hïjã, Hïja

39 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●

Hija 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 Spanish, daughter; female equivalent of hijo

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swahili, pilgrimage

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • daughter

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In Maltese, she (third-person feminine singular subject pronoun)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In men, v., to beat as rice, to

    as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language

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●

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 10 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Hija
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20075#76,598
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—3#37,740
TZ TanzaniaINEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results20202#28
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—1#222,825
EE EstoniaSiseministeerium — population register name list 20232023——
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement)———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia surname 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 · 6 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hija?
Our records include 4,182 bearers of Hija across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Hija have the most bearers?
Hija is most frequently recorded in Panama, where it is most often spelled hija.
How common is Hija compared with other names?
In Panama, Hija is the 151st most common given name of 23,394 given names recorded there.
Is Hija a male or female name?
Hija is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Hija mean?
Recorded meaning: female name from hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca.
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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, “Hija” — the 151st most common given name in Panama. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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