Hála
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hála is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. In Syria it is the 56th most common given name.
- SYSyria≈1 in 564(inferred from the name graph)
- JOJordan≈1 in 662
- EGEgypt≈1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hála itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 273 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 564 (inferred from the name graph)
≈69,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hala in SY Syria, EG Egypt, BR Brazil and 3 more and Nila in BD Bangladesh.
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)
Hala är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’strålkrans (kring månen)’.
Sources 9
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The African book of names
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hála 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #122 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Hala | 123 |
| BD Bangladesh | #217 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Nila | 38 |
| SY Syria | #56 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 564 | 1 | Hala | 53 |
| JO Jordan | #285 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 662 | — | Hala | 96 |
| BR Brazil | — | 14,297as Nilo | 1 in 15K | 19K | Hala | 32 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,505 | 1 in 6.8K | 1.5K | Hala | 33 |
| KW Kuwait | #160 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Hala | 58 |
| IS Iceland | — | 501as Halla | 1 in 700 | 535 | — | — |
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: Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hála is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, thanks
as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian
In Faroese, to pull, to heave, to haul
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, gratitude, gratefulness
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In se, inflection of hállat:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malagasy, a spider, a scorpion
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Serbo-Croatian, „zahod“
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jan Hálab. 1890CZCzech painter, graphic artist and folklorist (1890-1959)
- František Hálab. 1893CZCzechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament, minister of post offices, Czechoslovak politician and roman catholic priest (1893–1952)
- František Hálab. 1898CZCzech painter
- Vlastimil Hálab. 1924CZCzech composer and trumpeter (1924–1985)
- Józef Hałasb. 1927PLnot in their usual namePolish painter (1927-2015)
- Josef Hálab. 1928CZCzech cemballist, music educator and pianist (1928-2019)
- Kamil Hálab. 1931CZCzech composer and pianist (1931–2014)
- Karel Hálab. 1933CZCzech singer (1933–2008)
- József Hálab. 1949HUHungarian ethnographer and geologist
- Martin Hálab. 1992CZSlovak soccer player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Hála have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 69 thousand people named Hála in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hala.
- How common is the name Hála?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 1,505 people named Hála, about 1 in 6.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Hála compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Hála is the 122nd most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hála?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A1laThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Hála” — the 122nd most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.