Halaš
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
Halaš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Respelling, especially in eastern Slovenia, of Hungarian Halasz ‘fisherman’ (see Halasz).
- UAUkraine≈1 in 19Kas Галас(inferred from the name graph)
- SKSlovakia1 in 6.4K
- SISlovenia1 in 18K
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 Halaš 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
4,636 named Galas, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Halas in PL Poland, US United States, SK Slovakia and Галас in UA Ukraine.
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)Respelling, especially in eastern Slovenia, of Hungarian Halasz ‘fisherman’ (see Halasz).
Cited for this meaning 4
- African Muslim Names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Halaš 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 4,636as Galas | 1 in 8.3K | 2.3K | Halas | 47 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Галас | 33 |
| US United States | — | 1,586as Galaz | 1 in 210K | 1.6K | Halas | 28 |
| SK Slovakia | #251 | 848 | 1 in 6.4K | 848 | Halas | 40 |
| AR Argentina | — | 549as Galaz | 1 in 83K | 549 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 119 | 1 in 18K | 119 | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | — | 89 | 1 in 48K | 89 | — | — |
4,636 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling galas. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 49 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 18 | #24,634 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 15 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Halaš mean, and where does it come from?
- Respelling, especially in eastern Slovenia, of Hungarian Halasz ‘fisherman’ (see Halasz). Recorded by African Muslim Names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Halaš have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Galas, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Halaš most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Halaš is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 6.4 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Halaš?
- In Slovakia, the national register counted 848 people named Halaš in 1995, about 1 in 6.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Halaš compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Halaš is the 251st most common surname of 69,668 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hala%C5%A1The 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, “Halaš” — the 251st most common surname in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.