Elhadji
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- el-HAH-jee
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #6,799 for boys
Elhadji is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “the pilgrim”. In 2025 it ranked 6,799th for boys in the US (12 babies).
What does Elhadji mean?
Arabic: West African form of the Arabic title al-Hajj
“the pilgrim”
Used especially in Senegal and Niger, from the title for a man who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca.
Is Elhadji a girl's or a boy's name?
Elhadji is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Elhadji in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,799th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 140,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 12 boys in the US were named Elhadji, making it the 6,799th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 12 boys. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the boys named Elhadji in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Elhadji in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,799 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,307 |
| 2023 | 6 | #10,815 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,822 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,582 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,599 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,542 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,638 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 8 | #8,784 |
| 2012 | 8 | #8,858 |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,801 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 6 | #10,989 |
| 2008 | 10 | #7,693 |
| 2007 | 6 | #10,915 |
| 2006 | 9 | #7,992 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,633 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,137 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,251 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,515 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,332 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,309 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,623 |
Names like Elhadji
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad, Hamza, Zahir, Abdullah, Zayd, Mustafa, Mouhamed, Abdullahi, Muhammadali, Amir, Ibrahim, Nasir
Names related to Elhadji
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Kairo, Safa
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Elhadji: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/elhadji, updated 20 October 2026.