Alhaji — boys' name

What the Data Says About Alhaji

The Social Security Administration has registered 211 babies named Alhaji between 1979 and 2023, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Alhaji currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 19 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Alhaji performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 88 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Alhaji shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Virginia, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Alhaji in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Alhaji in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 211 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.