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Alhaji

#10,746 in 2025Boys' name

The pilgrim

Alhaji has been given to 217 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #10,746 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Alhaji, 2025

1 in 553,000

Alhaji over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alhaji: meaning, origin, and history

The pilgrim

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alhaji means

Alhaji means “the pilgrim”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 217 boys were recorded with the name Alhaji between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2001; its best national rank was #4,123 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,606 in 2020 to #10,746 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,771 in 2015 to #10,746 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Alhaji?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,746
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alhaji sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alhaji. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alhajis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alhaji was born before 2004 — so the typical Alhaji is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
40.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
217
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 40.6% of all recorded uses (88).

Is Alhaji rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,140
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,975
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.6%
Peak was 2001 (19)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,123
2001

Where Alhaji is used

Across 1910–2025, Alhaji was most concentrated in Virginia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 782,006 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Virginia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Alhaji has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alhaji around the world

Where Alhaji ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Alhaji by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,746
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,140
Best rank ever
#4,123
2001
Peak year
2001
19 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
217
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Alhaji

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Alhaji

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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