Héja
given name · Latin script
Meaning: one of certain kinds of hawks (see below), goshawk
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Héja is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 255K(measured from records)
- HUHungary≈1 in 435K
- DKDenmark1 in 978K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 255K (inferred from the name graph)
40 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
one of certain kinds of hawks (see below), goshawk
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Héja 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.
40 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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)
Héja is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, Típusa: Tulajdonságra utaló, magyar családnév. Eredete: Előzménye, a héja madárnevünk valószínűleg hangutánzó eredetű. Metaforikusan (olyan gyors, agresszív, határozott, mint a héja) vagy szimbolikusan (héját tartó, azzal vadászó) válhatott családnévvé. Elterjedtsége: Az Alföldön, különösen a Tisza mentén, a Szolnok és Szeged közötti szakaszon gyakoribb.
as a nameCsaládnevek enciklopédiája
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 does the name Héja mean, and where does it come from?
- one of certain kinds of hawks (see below), goshawk Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Héja a male or female name?
- Héja is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Héja have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 40 people named Héja, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Héja most common?
- Héja is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 255 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Héja?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 40 people named Héja, about 1 in 255 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Héja?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A9jaThe 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, “Héja”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.