Given name & surname

Ijaz

Ijaz is a surname from Arabic.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Ijaz comes from Arabic.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Arabic اعجاز.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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
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Too few births to compare
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Ijaz in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2000–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

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.

Walk Ijaz’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

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.

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Sibling ideas

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