Hål
surname · Latin script
Hål is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A diminutive lambdacism of Harry (compare Sally from Sarah and Moll from Mary).
- USUnited States1 in 34K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- 1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
9,875 people, 2020
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 Hal in US United States, FR France, BR Brazil and 4 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)
A diminutive lambdacism of Harry (compare Sally from Sarah and Moll from Mary).
Sources 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hål 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 | — | 9,875 | 1 in 34K | 9.8K | Hal | 100 |
| SE Sweden | — | 10 | 1 in 1M | 10 | — | 1 |
| FR France | — | — | — | listed | Hal | 109 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | — | 33 | Hal | 32 |
| AR Argentina | — | — | — | 40 | Hal | 24 |
| CU Cuba | #308 | — | — | — | Hal | 3 |
| CV Cape Verde | #454 | — | — | — | Hal | 1 |
| NC New Caledonia | #397 | — | — | — | Hal | 3 |
9,875 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 Hål mean, and where does it come from?
- A diminutive lambdacism of Harry (compare Sally from Sarah and Moll from Mary). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Hål have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.9 thousand people named Hål, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hal.
- Where is Hål most common?
- Hål is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 34 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hål?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,875 people named Hål in 2020, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
- How common is Hål compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Hål is the 308th most common given name of 6,267 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A5lThe 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, “Hål” — the 308th most common given name in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.