Najar

surname · Spanish · Latin script

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

Najar is a surname, most frequently recorded in Mexico. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: l.most probably a habitational name from Najar, Alacant.

rarermore common
  • MXMexico1 in 24K◐
  • PEPeru1 in 26K
  • COColombia1 in 38K

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

≈5.5K ●

across 14 countries

Sources
147 ●

32K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 40K ◐

Costa Rica

Meaning & origin●

l.most probably a habitational name from Najar, Alacant. 2. alternatively, it may be an occupational name derived from Arabic najjar ‘carpenter’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Najar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico—15,40412K rec.—82Najar89
PE Peru—9,2978.4K rec.——Najar48
US United States—3,2964.9K rec.1 in 101K3.3KNajar147
CO Colombia—1,494591 rec.——Najar49
HN Honduras#489862848 rec.——Najar12
ES Spain—7821.1K rec.1 in 64K782Najar51
BR Brazil—662457 rec.1 in 320K662Najar54
AR Argentina—2741.5K rec.1 in 166K274Najar39
NI Nicaragua#935235236 rec.——Najar6
CA Canada—182180 rec.——Najar16
CR Costa Rica—129284 rec.1 in 40K129Najar10
SE Sweden—116△6 rec.1 in 88K116—5

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

Languages●

  • Spanish38K39%
  • English18K18%
  • Hindi10K10%
  • 7.2K7%
  • Arabic4.8K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish38,39439%
English17,76318%
Hindi10,09610%
7,2267%
Arabic4,7745%

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◐

Najar is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname28K records spelled Najar3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Ecuador, Morocco

    Also written Nájar, Najār

  • English surname22K records spelled Najar7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Nájar, Ñâjäř

  • French surname5.7K records spelled Najar5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Nàjàr, Nájar, Näjär

  • Indonesian surname4.8K records spelled Najar4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Indonesia, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Ñãjãř, Nájar

  • Khmer surname505 records spelled Najar2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Nájar

42 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●

Najar is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Nájera, Spain

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

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●

050100150194019601980111 · 1971

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Najar in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1921–1991
Yearrecords
19219
193111
194111
195125
196161
1971111
1981111
1991101

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 8 years between 1921–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1700180019002000Judah ben Jacob Najar, b. 1750Omar Najar, b. 1947Aino Kartul-Najar, b. 1954Ridha Najar, b. 1957Sergiusz Najar, b. 1959Mohamed Najar, b. 1973Nate Najar, b. 1981Ines Najar, b. 1983Andy Najar, b. 1993Suheyel Najar, b. 1995

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 32 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Najar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.3K#9,821
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.2K#9,593
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.6K#11,026
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—1.3K#1,285
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—782#5,497
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—782#5,493
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—662#13,227
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—274—
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—129#1,255
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—116#6,422
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981111—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971111—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 92 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Najar?
We estimate roughly 5.5 thousand people bear Najar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Najar have the most bearers?
Najar is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled najar.
How common is Najar compared with other names?
In Honduras, Najar is the 489th most common surname of 29,437 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Najar mean?
Recorded meaning: l.most probably a habitational name from Najar, Alacant.
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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Najar” — the 489th most common surname in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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