Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2000. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ijaz through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2009. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 412 as a first name in 2020; 838 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ijaz’s family of names
In French usage, Ijaz has a conventional equivalent in the Urdu form اعجاز.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ijaz
- Ijaz AhmedPakistani cricketer, born 1968
- Ijaz FaqihPakistani cricketerborn 1956
- Ijaz AhmedPakistani cricketer, born 1969
- Ijaz ButtPakistani cricketer1938–2023
- Ijaz Ahmed Shahpolitician in Pakistanborn 1954
- Iljaz AgushiAlbanian politician from Kosovo1882–1943
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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