Saraj
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Saraj is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 72nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script.
- LKSri Lanka1 in 775◐
- INIndia1 in 812
- THThailand1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.9K ●
- #755 ●
- 8 ●
- Sources
- 271 ●
- 1 in 2.1K ◐
across 7 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
1.3M records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
12 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Suraj in IN India, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 15 more, Sarath in LK Sri Lanka, AR Argentina, IT Italy, Surya in SG Singapore, FI Finland and Sarat in BR Brazil, ES Spain.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #72 | 4,371,847 | 1.1M rec. | — | 2.2K | Suraj | 271 |
| TH Thailand | #153 | 119,021 | 60K rec. | — | #629,517 | สุรัตน์ | 122 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 6,521 | 3.8K rec. | — | 3 | Suraj | 107 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 4,983 | 7.2K rec. | — | — | Suraj | 44 |
| AU Australia | — | 4,583 | 4.6K rec. | — | 2 | Suraj | 94 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 3,112 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Suraj | 33 |
| US United States | — | 2,571 | 45K rec. | 1 in 129K | 7.4K | Suraj | 258 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #39 | 1,846 | 3.7K rec. | — | — | Sarath | 55 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #205 | 1,827 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Suraj | 62 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #711 | 1,771 | 383 rec. | — | — | Suraj | 24 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,630 | 1.6K rec. | — | 2 | Suraj | 82 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 1,209 | 128 rec. | — | listed | Suraj | 20 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi24K71%
- 4.7K14%
- English1.6K5%
- Bangla7352%
- Urdu6702%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 23,605 | 71% |
| 4,736 | 14% | |
| English | 1,624 | 5% |
| Bangla | 735 | 2% |
| Urdu | 670 | 2% |
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●
Saraj 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.
In Serbo-Croatian, seraglio
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1899 | 2 |
| 1900 | 1 |
| 1919 | 1 |
| 1922 | 2 |
| 1923 | 1 |
| 1924 | 1 |
| 1925 | 2 |
| 1926 | 1 |
| 1927 | 2 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1929 | 4 |
| 1930 | 1 |
| 1931 | 3 |
| 1932 | 4 |
| 1933 | 4 |
| 1934 | 10 |
| 1935 | 4 |
| 1936 | 5 |
| 1937 | 6 |
| 1938 | 7 |
| 1939 | 13 |
| 1940 | 8 |
| 1941 | 8 |
| 1942 | 15 |
| 1943 | 9 |
| 1944 | 20 |
| 1945 | 19 |
| 1946 | 18 |
| 1947 | 20 |
| 1948 | 15 |
| 1949 | 22 |
| 1950 | 20 |
| 1951 | 16 |
| 1952 | 36 |
| 1953 | 28 |
| 1954 | 42 |
| 1955 | 35 |
| 1956 | 35 |
| 1957 | 51 |
| 1958 | 47 |
| 1959 | 43 |
| 1960 | 48 |
| 1961 | 52 |
| 1962 | 54 |
| 1963 | 43 |
| 1964 | 65 |
| 1965 | 68 |
| 1966 | 79 |
| 1967 | 72 |
| 1968 | 63 |
| 1969 | 74 |
| 1970 | 74 |
| 1971 | 77 |
| 1972 | 90 |
| 1973 | 67 |
| 1974 | 73 |
| 1975 | 76 |
| 1976 | 108 |
| 1977 | 73 |
| 1978 | 70 |
| 1979 | 77 |
| 1980 | 78 |
| 1981 | 81 |
| 1982 | 132 |
| 1983 | 125 |
| 1984 | 130 |
| 1985 | 116 |
| 1986 | 118 |
| 1987 | 161 |
| 1988 | 146 |
| 1989 | 179 |
| 1990 | 196 |
| 1991 | 246 |
| 1992 | 268 |
| 1993 | 357 |
| 1994 | 284 |
| 1995 | 328 |
| 1996 | 130 |
| 1997 | 168 |
| 1998 | 124 |
| 1999 | 9 |
| 2008 | 8 |
| 2010 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2012 | 2 |
| 2013 | 4 |
| 2014 | 19 |
| 2015 | 4 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 88 years between 1899–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Raouf Sarajb. 1957NONorwegian actor
- Lidaa Sarajb. 1998AFbadminton player
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 22 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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 · 193 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Saraj?
- We estimate roughly 3.9 thousand people bear Saraj (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Saraj have the most bearers?
- Saraj is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled suraj.
- How common is Saraj compared with other names?
- In India, Saraj is the 72nd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
- Is Saraj a male or female name?
- Saraj 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.
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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, “Saraj” — the 72nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.