Hajj — boys' name
19 babies named Hajj in U.S. Social Security records since 2014, with the highest year being 2020. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
63% of everyone ever named Hajj was born in this single decade.
7 babies were named Hajj in 2020 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Hajj
The Social Security Administration has registered 19 babies named Hajj between 2014 and 2020, spanning 7 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Hajj currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 7 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Hajj performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 12 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Hajj shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Hajj in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Hajj 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 19 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.
Hajj at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Hajj popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–2014
- Peak year (2020)
- 7
- Annual births at peak — across 7 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
19 total births across 7 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2020 with 7 births in a single year.
Hajj by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 12 births that decade — 63% of Hajj's all-time total
Hajj decade highlights
- Peak decade 12 births
- Runner-up 7 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Hajj's strongest decade
12 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 63% of all-time use.
Hajj by state
Where Hajj concentrates geographically — total births since 2014
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Pennsylvania | | 5 | 26.3% |
5 of 19 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Pennsylvania 26.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Pennsylvania accounts for 26.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2014–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.