Håra
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Håra 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 *hara (“forked tool”). Related to Estonian haru, Karelian hara, Veps aro, and more distantly to Northern Sami suorri.
- USUnited States1 in 128K(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 930K
- FIFinland1 in 9.7K
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)
- Record sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)
2,603 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hara in US United States, IN India.
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 *hara (“forked tool”). Related to Estonian haru, Karelian hara, Veps aro, and more distantly to Northern Sami suorri.
Cited for this meaning 9
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Håra 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.
2,603 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 14 | #50,564 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Håra mean, and where does it come from?
- From Proto-Finnic *hara (“forked tool”). Related to Estonian haru, Karelian hara, Veps aro, and more distantly to Northern Sami suorri. Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India and Dictionary of American Family Names and 7 other sources.
- In which country does Håra have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Håra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hara.
- Where is Håra most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Håra is densest in Finland — about 1 in 9.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Håra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,603 people named Håra in 2010, about 1 in 128 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A5raThe 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, “Håra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.