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2025 data, released 8 May 2026

Hajar

Hajar was the 5022nd most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 26 babies. Its best year was 2010, when it ranked 4140th with 36 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved up 700 places. More babies were named Hajar in the 2010s than in any other decade.

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Rank in 2025
#5,022 girls, up 520 places since 2020
Babies in 2025
26girls
Girls and boys
Almost always a girl’s name2021–2025
Peak year
201036 babies
Total since 1880
745babies recorded

Hajar popularity since 1880

012.52537.550 1900192019401960198020002020
Girls Babies per year, US, from Social Security records. Years with fewer than 5 babies show as zero.
YearRank (girls)Babies (girls)
2025#5,02226
2020#5,54222
2010#4,14036
2000#4,57326
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How popular is Hajar, counting every spelling?

Hajar is the most common spelling of a name family that had 31 girls in 2025 across its spellings. Together these spellings went to 31 girls in 2025.

SpellingBabies 2025Official rankBabies 2021–2025
Hajar26#5,022128

Spellings count together when they sound the same in American English and are used for the same sex; nicknames and forms that sound different (such as Theo and Theodore) are kept apart. How we group spellings.

How many kids will share the name Hajar?

26 of the 3,606,400 babies born in the US in 2025 were named Hajar (0.01 per 1,000 births). For a girl named Hajar born in 2025, the chance that another child with the same name is in a class of 20 children the same age is under 1 in 50. If every grade liked the name as much as the 2025 babies do, only about one elementary school in 323 (of 430 pupils) would have a child named Hajar.

Chance of another Hajar in a class of 20under 1 in 50US, born 2025
Most likely inIllinoisunder 1 in 50 (2024)

Shares of all registered births (NCHS); classes assumed to be children born the same year. How we estimate this.

How old are people named Hajar?

About 700 people born in the US named Hajar are alive today, with a median age of 15; half are between 8 and 22. That makes Hajar mostly worn by children and young adults.

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Estimated people alive in the US with the name, by age, mid-2026. The darker bar holds the median age.

Babies given the name each year (SSA) times the share of that birth year still alive (SSA life tables). Counts people born in the US only. Method.

Hajar by state

How common Hajar was among girls born in each state in 2021–2025. In 48 states fewer than five girls a year got the name, too few for SSA to publish, so those states show as zero.

Alaska: fewer than 5 a yearAK–Maine: fewer than 5 a yearME–Wisconsin: fewer than 5 a yearWI–Vermont: fewer than 5 a yearVT–New Hampshire: fewer than 5 a yearNH–Washington: fewer than 5 a yearWA–Idaho: fewer than 5 a yearID–Montana: fewer than 5 a yearMT–North Dakota: fewer than 5 a yearND–Minnesota: fewer than 5 a yearMN–Illinois: 0.02 per 1,000 babiesIL0.02Michigan: fewer than 5 a yearMI–New York: 0.01 per 1,000 babiesNY0.01Massachusetts: fewer than 5 a yearMA–Oregon: fewer than 5 a yearOR–Nevada: fewer than 5 a yearNV–Wyoming: fewer than 5 a yearWY–South Dakota: fewer than 5 a yearSD–Iowa: fewer than 5 a yearIA–Indiana: fewer than 5 a yearIN–Ohio: fewer than 5 a yearOH–Pennsylvania: fewer than 5 a yearPA–New Jersey: fewer than 5 a yearNJ–Connecticut: fewer than 5 a yearCT–Rhode Island: fewer than 5 a yearRI–California: 0.01 per 1,000 babiesCA0.01Utah: fewer than 5 a yearUT–Colorado: fewer than 5 a yearCO–Nebraska: fewer than 5 a yearNE–Missouri: fewer than 5 a yearMO–Kentucky: fewer than 5 a yearKY–West Virginia: fewer than 5 a yearWV–Virginia: fewer than 5 a yearVA–Maryland: fewer than 5 a yearMD–Delaware: fewer than 5 a yearDE–Arizona: fewer than 5 a yearAZ–New Mexico: fewer than 5 a yearNM–Kansas: fewer than 5 a yearKS–Arkansas: fewer than 5 a yearAR–Tennessee: fewer than 5 a yearTN–North Carolina: fewer than 5 a yearNC–South Carolina: fewer than 5 a yearSC–District of Columbia: fewer than 5 a yearDC–Oklahoma: fewer than 5 a yearOK–Louisiana: fewer than 5 a yearLA–Mississippi: fewer than 5 a yearMS–Alabama: fewer than 5 a yearAL–Georgia: fewer than 5 a yearGA–Hawaii: fewer than 5 a yearHI–Texas: fewer than 5 a yearTX–Florida: fewer than 5 a yearFL–
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex, Hajar, girls, 2021–2025. Darker means more common.

Names with a similar history

These names rose and fell in step with Hajar: their share of US girls followed the most similar curve since 1880. If you like Hajar, they share its era and feel.

Questions about the name Hajar

How popular is the name Hajar?

Hajar was the 5022nd most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 26 babies. Its best year was 2010, when it ranked 4140th with 36 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved up 700 places. More babies were named Hajar in the 2010s than in any other decade.

Is Hajar a boy or girl name?

In 2021–2025, almost always a girl’s name given the name Hajar in the US.

Where is Hajar most popular?

In 2021–2025, Hajar was most common in Illinois (0.02 per 1,000 girls), followed by New York and California.