Hola
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Hindu festival
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hola is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 11K
- PLPoland1 in 141K
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
3,377 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Holá in CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia.
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)
Hindu festival
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hola 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.
3,377 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the african-names-stewart-1993 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)
Hola is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Ewe, Ewe (Ghana): 'saviour'.
as a nameAfrican Names
In lua, to be calm, be at peace, be peaceful, be gentle, be quiet, be settled, be silent, be still, be tranquil, be cold, be chilly, be cool, be damp, be moist, be wet, be soaked, be humid, be insipid, be saltless, be tasteless, be unseasoned, be distasteful, be cured, be healed, be well.
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
In men, v., to strain out, to filter, to leak, to per- colate
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In lua, peacefully, silently, in silence, softly. I
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
In cau-lzg-pro, lentil
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zbigniew Holab. 1948PLPolish sportsperson
- Lavina Holab. 1996PGPapuan association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #22,141 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #22,140 |
| NG Nigeria | African Names (Julia Stewart, 1993) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hola mean, and where does it come from?
- Hindu festival Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Hola have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Hola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled holá.
- Where is Hola most common?
- Hola is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hola?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 3,377 people named Hola, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Hola compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Hola is the 584th most common surname of 114,573 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/holaThe 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, “Hola” — the 584th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.