Names of Fiji FJ

The names that most distinguish Fiji from the rest of the world are Chand and Prasad.

Written in English, fj, Hindi.

Population
936K
Official registers
2
Name forms recorded
59
BBuilt from 2 official registers, 59 name forms in our corpus, 12 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

How names work in Fiji

3 naming traditions are in use in Fiji, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Fiji

Characteristic of Fiji

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Fiji holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

ChandPrasad
Sized by how much of the difference between Fiji's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Scripts & spelling

Chandsurname●
Prasadsurname●
Tevitagiven name●
Naidusurname●
Elenoagiven name●
The best-attested names in Fiji, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

  • The page provides insights into the most common Fijian surnames and their cultural significance, published by the Instit2026not a population count

    surnam.es. Counts: not recorded. surname. 10 forms. 2026. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. The page provides insights into the most common Fijian surnames and their cultural significance, published by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Fiji. NAME-SEARCH SWEEP 2026-08-06: checked the Fiji Bureau of Statistics (statsfiji.gov.fj — population/census/vital-stats pages only) and the Registrar General's Office / Ministry of Justice births-deaths-marriages registry (justice.gov.fj) plus MyFiji@Gov e-services, which only offer certificate applications/reprints (per-person, ID-based). No live per-name existence/frequency oracle found; not re-searched until infrastructure changes.

    Last verified 2026-05-11.

  • The page provides a list of traditional Fijian names and surnames, published on Wikibooks.2023not a population count

    en.wikibooks.org. Counts: not recorded. given and surname. 2 forms. 2023. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. The page provides a list of traditional Fijian names and surnames, published on Wikibooks.

    Last verified 2026-05-11.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

Is there one naming system in Fiji?
No — 3 are described on this page (Fijian, Hindi and North Indian, British), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Fiji”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/FJ (data snapshot 2026-09-12).