Har
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A hinge
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hɑː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Har is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 234K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 23K
- AOAngola≈1 in 25K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
A hinge.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Har 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Har | 3 |
| CN China | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 484K | — | Har | 2 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Har | 11 |
| AO Angola | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Har | 1 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 234K | — | Har | 16 |
| US United States | 350 | 1 in 950K | 501 | Har | 79 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Har | 6 |
| SG Singapore | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Har | 11 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Har 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 German, Wohnstättenname; univerbierte Präposition + Har; morphologisch: -har(en). Belegt 33+11.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In Hungarian, battle; to fight
as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian
In cau-lzg-pro, tree
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In French, acronym of heure avancée des Rocheuses (“Mountain Daylight Time”): MDT
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of herre (“hinge”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Ha Seung-moob. 1964KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean writer
- Ha Jung-woob. 1978KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor (1978-)
- Ha Ji-wonb. 1978KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Ha Seok-jinb. 1982KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Ha Seung-Jinb. 1985KRnot in their usual nameSouth korean basketball player
- Ha Yoon-kyungb. 1992KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Jin Hab. 1994USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Ha Seung-rib. 1995KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress (1995-)
- Yerin Hab. 1998AUnot in their usual nameAustralian actress
- Gene Hab. 2000USnot in their usual nameartist
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 216 | #26,555 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 134 | #26,555 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Har mean, and where does it come from?
- A hinge. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Har?
- A machine transcription gives /hɑː/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Har a male or female name?
- Har is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Har have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Har in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled har.
- How common is the name Har?
- In the United States, the national register counted 350 people named Har in 2020, about 1 in 950 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/harThe 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, “Har”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.