Hahl

surname · Latin script

Meaning: habitational name from Hahl in Westphalia, Hahlen near Minden, or from a place on the Hahle river, all named with hal ‘marsh’, ‘mire’

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

Pronunciation:

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

  • FIFinland1 in 7.6K(measured from records)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 99K
  • USUnited States1 in 996K

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 Hahl 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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈850 people, est.

Record sources
122 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Haehl in SG Singapore, BZ Belize.

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)

habitational name from Hahl in Westphalia, Hahlen near Minden, or from a place on the Hahle river, all named with hal ‘marsh’, ‘mire’.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Hahl 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 Hahl is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany≈850 est.≈1 in 99K—Hahl62
FI Finland7341 in 7.6K734Hahl13
US United States3341 in 996K494Hahl122
PK Pakistan≈320 est.≈1 in 775K—Hahl1
PH Philippines≈91 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Hahl1
SG Singapore≈9 est.≈1 in 685K—Haehl2
BZ Belize≈2 est.≈1 in 177K—Haehl1

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

Hahl is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Finnish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Håhl

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Brazil, Finland

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Håhl, Hähl

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Hähl, Håhl

  • Swedish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Finland, Sweden

    Languages: Swedish, Danish

    Also written Hähl, Håhl

27 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1850190019502000Albert Hahl, b. 1868Jalmari Hahl, b. 1869Eero Hahl, b. 1872Moses Hahl, b. 1879Nils-Gustav Hahl, b. 1904Lothar Hahl, b. 1912Nadine Hahl, b. 1978Riku Hahl, b. 1980Juuso Hahl, b. 1982Theresa Hahl, b. 1989

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).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalDear Hahl,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Hahl
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—734#2,462
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020494#46,481
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000357#54,152
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—338—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010334#60,347
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Hahl mean, and where does it come from?
habitational name from Hahl in Westphalia, Hahlen near Minden, or from a place on the Hahle river, all named with hal ‘marsh’, ‘mire’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Hahl have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 845 people named Hahl in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hahl.
Where is Hahl most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hahl is densest in Finland — about 1 in 7.6 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Hahl?
In Finland, the national register counted 734 people named Hahl, about 1 in 7.6 thousand 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, “Hahl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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