Haifa
loc · Latin script
Meaning: district, Israel
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Haifa is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tunisia than in any other country.
- TNTunisia≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 10K
- LBLebanon≈1 in 19K
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.
- Tunisia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 157 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Haïfa in FR France, TN Tunisia and 'Haifa in ID Indonesia.
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)
district, Israel
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Haifa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TN Tunisia | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Haïfa | 38 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | 'Haifa | 72 |
| SY Syria | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Haifa | 16 |
| US United States | 818 | 1 in 407K | 802 | Haifa | 140 |
| FR France | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Haïfa | 157 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Haifa | 24 |
| IL Israel | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 55K | 13 | Haifa | 13 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present). 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)
Haifa is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
slim
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
In English, A port city in northern Israel.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, Haifa (a city in Israel)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, pilsēta Izraēlas ziemeļu daļā (angļu val. "Haifa", ebr. val. "Hefa"), osta Vidusjūras krastā, 266300 iedzīvotāju (2006. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Haifa al-Aghab. 1944PSPalestinian politician
- Haifa bint Faisalb. 1950SASaudi royal (born 1950)
- Haifa Zanganab. 1950IQIraqi writer
- Haifa Najjarb. 1959JOJordanian politician
- Hayfa Baytarb. 1960SYnot in their usual nameSyrian writer and ophthalmologist
- Haifa El Aissamib. 1971VEVenezuelan lawyer
- Haifaa al-Mansourb. 1974SAnot in their usual nameSaudi Arabian film director
- Haifa Wehbeb. 1976LBLebanese singer and actress
- Harashta Haifa Zahrab. 2003IDIndonesian beauty pageant titleholder, Miss Supranational 2024 (born 2003)
- Haifa AlMogrinSAPermanent Respresentative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the UNESCO
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 48 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 802 | #14,410 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 249 | #81,829 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 227 | #82,908 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 126 | #125,639 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 16 | #14,410 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 11 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Haifa mean, and where does it come from?
- district, Israel Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Haifa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.8 thousand people named Haifa in Tunisia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled haïfa.
- How common is the name Haifa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 818 people named Haifa in 2020, about 1 in 407 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/haifaThe 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, “Haifa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.