Haha

surname · Latin script

Meaning: water; sky; blood; meditation; auspiciousness; moon; heaven; battle; pride; horse; nowledge

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Haha is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
  • INIndia1 in 7.2M
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1Mas Haehae

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 Haha 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.

India (measured from records)

184 people

Sources
76 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.6M (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Haehae in NZ New Zealand.

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)

water; sky; blood; meditation; auspiciousness; moon; heaven; battle; pride; horse; nowledge.

Sources 1

  • The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Haha 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.

Where Haha is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India1841 in 7.2M184—11
PL Poland241 in 1.6M12—1
AU Australia≈5 est.≈1 in 4.8M—Haha24
NZ New Zealand≈5 est.≈1 in 1M—Haehae10
US United States≈3 est.≈1 in 98MlistedHaha76
HK Hong Kong≈3 est.≈1 in 2.3M—Haha7

184 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Haha is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Hahã

  • a separate surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Philippines, China

    Also written Hàhâ, Håhå

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Belgium

    Also written Hàhà, Haha', Hàhà'

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Philippines, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Hãhã, Hahá, Håhå

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Haha, Hähä

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Haha 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.

  • exclamation of surprise.

    as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

  • in attentive response.

    as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

  • In lua, far away, far, yonder, remote, distant, Ithence, thither, beyond. § 163, Note 3.

    as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language

  • In rap, mouth

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In bbc, elder sibling of the same sex; older brother’s wife (man speaking), older sister’s husband (woman speaking)

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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)

Attested in 9 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Haha
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—184#18,732
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202612—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202612—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—12#120,238
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—12#120,836
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—11#16,602
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

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 Haha mean, and where does it come from?
water; sky; blood; meditation; auspiciousness; moon; heaven; battle; pride; horse; nowledge. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
In which country does Haha have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 184 people named Haha, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Haha most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Haha is densest in Poland — about 1 in 1.6 million people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Haha?
In India, the national register counted 184 people named Haha, about 1 in 7.2 million residents.

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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, “Haha”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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