# Balaji (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/balaji/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Tamil.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Tamil |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 868 |
| US rank (2010) | 27,707 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 355,698 people |
| Change since 2000 | +228% (265 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Telugu బాలాజీ (bālājī) and Tamil பாலாஜி (pālāji), a compound of Sanskrit बाल (bāla, “young boy, the form of Vishnu at the Tirupati temple in Andhra Pradesh.”) + Hindi -जी (-jī, “honorific”). The surname is particularly found in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Balaji in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 0.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 97% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.5% |
| Two or more races | 0.7% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Balaji in the United States.

## People named Balaji

- Suchir Balaji, American artificial intelligence researcher (1998–2024)

## Similar surnames

Balk, Balas, Baylis, Ballas, Black, Blake, Bullock, Bowles, Block, Bliss, Boles, Bales.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.