Rajab
given name · Latin script
Meaning: the seventh month of the Islamic calendar
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 30 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɾɑʄɑb/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated · uncertain
Rajab is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 3.7Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 9.3Kfew records
- PKPakistan≈1 in 23K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rajab itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Раджаб in RU Russia, AZ Azerbaijan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)the seventh month of the Islamic calendar. Parents may wish to name a child born in this month ‘Rajab’.?”
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rajab counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 3 | Rajab | 22 |
| PK Pakistan | #319 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | Rajab | 43 |
| IN India | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 142K | 19 | Rajab | 38 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 26K | register #341 | Раджаб | 113 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Rajab | 5 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Раджаб | 6 |
| US United States | — | 182 | 1 in 1.8M | 406 | Rajab | 115 |
| MW Malawi | #102 | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 757K | — | Rajab | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Rajab is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, the seventh month of the Islamic calendar
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, the seventh month of the Muslim year. See Rajab (m.)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, 7th month of the Muslim calendar; the month Rajab
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In English, Islamic month
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Arabic, seventh month of the Islamic year
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- R. Etemadib. 1934IRnot in their usual nameIranian journalist and author
- Harmonizeb. 1994TZnot in their usual nameTanzanian artist and music entrepreneur
- Rajab Mahommedb. 1997BWMotswana boxer (* 1997)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)50 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 30 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Rajab come from?
- the seventh month of the Islamic calendar. Parents may wish to name a child born in this month ‘Rajab’.?” Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- What are other forms of the name Rajab?
- In the etymology graph, Recep is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Rajab?
- In Swahili /ɾɑʄɑb/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Rajab a male or female name?
- Rajab is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What does the name Rajab mean?
- Recorded meaning: the seventh month of the Islamic calendar.
- Which countries have the most people named Rajab?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Rajab in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rajab. After it come Pakistan, India, Russia and Afghanistan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Rajab?
- In the United States, the national register counted 182 people named Rajab in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
- How common is Rajab compared with other names?
- In Malawi, Rajab is the 102nd most common given name of 3,102 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rajab?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rajabThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rajab” — the 102nd most common given name in Malawi. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.