Sajjad

given name · Urdu · Latin script

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

Sajjad is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh. In Pakistan it is the 28th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Urdu and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: good.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan1 in 1.5K◐
  • BDBangladesh1 in 1.6K
  • INIndia1 in 30K

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

≈1.9K ●

across 7 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
170 ●

89K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 30K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

SajjadLatin · Urdu●148K records
সাজ্জাদBengali · Bangla●290 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sazzad in BD Bangladesh, MY Malaysia, SA Saudi Arabia and 2 more.

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●

good

Sources 1

  • African Muslim 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 Sajjad is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh#167178,3336.1K rec.—listedSazzad96
PK Pakistan#28123,8559.8K rec.—listedSajjad114
IN India—109,14943K rec.—247Sajjad92
GB United Kingdom—4,3352.8K rec.——Sajjad79
IR Iran—4,2453.3K rec.——Sajjad56
AU Australia—1,1281.5K rec.—3Sajjad79
US United States—1,09615K rec.1 in 304K1.1KSajjad170
DE Germany—717797 rec.—1Sajjad75
CA Canada—671847 rec.—6Sajjad59
MY Malaysia—537275 rec.——Sazzad19
IQ Iraq—510494 rec.——Sajjad21
IT Italy—408618 rec.—2Sajjad21

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

Languages●

  • Urdu148K47%
  • Hindi68K22%
  • 36K12%
  • English15K5%
  • Bangla11K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Urdu147,94747%
Hindi68,45522%
36,47912%
English15,3875%
Bangla10,9753%

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◐

Sajjad is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name48K records spelled Sajjad3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Iran

    Also written Sajjād, Šajjād

  • French given name2.8K records spelled Sajjad4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, India, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Sâjjâd, Säjjäd

  • Pashto given name1.3K records spelled Sajjad2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, Iran, India, Afghanistan

    Also written Sajjād

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name1.2K records spelled Sajjad7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Śájjád

  • Turkish given name1.2K records spelled Sajjad7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Şajjad, Şåjjąd

  • Thai given name1.0K records spelled Sajjad9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, India, Pakistan, Iran

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Sajad, ซาจาด, ซาจ๊าด, Šåjjãď, Sajjąd

45 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●

Sajjad is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • composer of rhymed

    as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

  • In Arabic, one who constantly prostrates, worshipper of Allah, worshipper engaged in sujud (prostration) before Allah

    as a nameA Dictionary of 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●

020040060080019201940196019802000639 · 1993

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Sajjad in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1916–2015
Yearrecords
19161
19173
19192
19203
19213
19236
19246
19254
19262
19279
19286
192918
19305
193111
193227
19337
193421
193520
193623
193739
193824
193941
194038
194137
194270
194348
194474
194555
194659
1947102
194867
194983
195090
1951110
1952135
195392
1954142
1955123
1956113
1957169
1958155
1959212
1960166
1961185
1962303
1963209
1964263
1965194
1966270
1967297
1968244
1969292
1970302
1971287
1972421
1973384
1974359
1975337
1976465
1977415
1978348
1979331
1980223
1981339
1982463
1983436
1984460
1985446
1986285
1987416
1988397
1989395
1990411
1991504
1992591
1993639
1994472
1995381
1996170
1997180
1998114
199913
20002
20011
20021
200896
201037
201115
20125
20138
2014149
201537

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 92 years between 1916–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Sajjad Malik, b. 1958Sajjad Karim, b. 1970Sajjad Barzi, b. 1981Sajjad Feizollahi, b. 1987Sajad Gharibi, b. 1991Sajjad Ashouri, b. 1992Sajjad Mohajeri, b. 1995Sajad Jassim Mousa, b. 1998

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 57 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Sajjad
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—1.5K#2,441
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.1K#11,574
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020857#29,392
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010543#40,313
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—401#9,522
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—401#9,496
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—372#3,058
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—340#3,604
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—307#6,504
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000269#68,360
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—269#3,324
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—247#15,280

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 · 276 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sajjad?
We estimate roughly 1.9 thousand people bear Sajjad (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Sajjad have the most bearers?
Sajjad is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled sazzad.
How common is Sajjad compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Sajjad is the 167th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
Is Sajjad a male or female name?
Sajjad is a male 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 Sajjad mean?
Recorded meaning: good
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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, “Sajjad” — the 167th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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