Här
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Här is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 950K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 293K
- SESweden1 in 638K
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 Här 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- 1 in 293K (inferred from the name graph)
350 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Har in US United States, NG Nigeria, NL Netherlands and 2 more and Haer in CN China.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Här 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 | — | 350 | 1 in 950K | 501 | Har | 179 |
| CN China | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Haer | 12 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 59 | 1 in 293K | 45 | Har | 30 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 4M | — | Har | 15 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Har | 19 |
| SE Sweden | — | 16 | 1 in 638K | 16 | — | 10 |
| DK Denmark | — | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 2 | 1 in 2.5M | 2 | — | — |
| HK Hong Kong | #741 | — | — | — | Har | 32 |
350 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Här is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, here; at this time or at this place
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Luxembourgish, lord, master, ruler
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Här?
- In the etymology graph, Hier is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Här have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 350 people named Här, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled har.
- Where is Här most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Här is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 293 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Här?
- In the United States, the national register counted 350 people named Här in 2020, about 1 in 950 thousand residents.
- How common is Här compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Här is the 741st most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Här?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A4rThe 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, “Här” — the 741st most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.