Hả
surname · Latin script
Meaning: interrogative particle: isn't it; aren't you ..
Hả is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common surname.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 230(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 2.3K
- DEGermany≈1 in 7.5Kfew records
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 Hả itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- #56 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 272 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 225 (inferred from the name graph)
4,643,497 named Sahu
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Saha in US United States, BD Bangladesh, NL Netherlands, Sahu in IN India, Ha in VN Vietnam and Sah in BR Brazil.
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)interrogative particle: isn't it; aren't you ...
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hả 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #8 | 4,643,497as Sahu | 1 in 286 | 4.6M | Sahu | 262 |
| BD Bangladesh | #22 | ≈580,000 est. | ≈1 in 299 | — | Saha | 120 |
| VN Vietnam | #29 | ≈450,000 est. | ≈1 in 225 | listed | Ha | 232 |
| BR Brazil | — | 344,780as Sa | 1 in 614 | 345K | Sah | 28 |
| US United States | — | 58,287as Shah | 1 in 5.7K | 77K | Saha | 272 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Şaha | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 151 | 1 in 114K | 2.3K | Saha | 26 |
4,643,497 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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)Hả 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 tyz, five
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 does the name Hả mean, and where does it come from?
- interrogative particle: isn't it; aren't you ... Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Hả have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 4.6 million people named Sahu, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hả?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 151 people named Hả in 2007, about 1 in 114 thousand residents.
- How common is Hả compared with other names?
- In India, Hả is the 8th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hả?
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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%E1%BA%A3The 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, “Hả” — the 8th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.