Aháva
surname · Latin script
Aháva is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Proto-Finnic *ahava, of unknown further origin. Appears to be analyzable as containing the adjectival/participle suffix -va, but no root word *aha is known.
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.2M(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)
282 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ahava in US United States, MX Mexico, CO Colombia and 1 more.
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)From Proto-Finnic *ahava, of unknown further origin. Appears to be analyzable as containing the adjectival/participle suffix -va, but no root word *aha is known. First attested in Daniel Juslenius: Suomalaisen Sana-Lugun Coetus ("Attempt at Listing Finnish Words", 1745). Cognates include Karelian ahava, Votic ahavõ, Veps ahau and dialectal Estonian ahav.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Wiktionary
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Aháva 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 282 | 1 in 1.2M | 274 | Ahava | 12 |
| NL Netherlands | 8 | 1 in 2.2M | 8 | — | — |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | Ahava | 5 |
| CO Colombia | — | — | — | Ahava | 2 |
| AR Argentina | — | — | — | Ahava | 2 |
282 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Aháva mean, and where does it come from?
- From Proto-Finnic *ahava, of unknown further origin. Appears to be analyzable as containing the adjectival/participle suffix -va, but no root word *aha is known. Recorded by Wiktionary and Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names and 1 other source.
- In which country does Aháva have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 282 people named Aháva, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ahava.
- Where is Aháva most common?
- Aháva is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Aháva?
- In the United States, the national register counted 282 people named Aháva in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ah%C3%A1vaThe 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, “Aháva”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.