Hâla

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Hâla is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. In Syria it is the 56th most common given name.

  • JOJordan≈1 in 270(inferred from the name graph)
  • SYSyria≈1 in 350
  • EGEgypt≈1 in 550

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 Hâla 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.

Egypt (inferred from the name graph)

≈210,000 people, est.

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
273 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 273 (inferred from the name graph)

Jordan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
HâlaLatin(measured from records)
নিলBengali(measured from records)
นิละThai(measured from records)
할라Hangul(measured from records)
ნილაGeorgian(measured from records)

7 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hala in SY Syria, EG Egypt, SA Saudi Arabia and 2 more, Nilu in IN India and Nila in BD Bangladesh.

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)
recorded in Swedish

Hala är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’strålkrans (kring månen)’.

Cited for this meaning 9

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • The African book of names
  • The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
  • Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Hâla 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 Hâla is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EG Egypt#122≈210,000 est.≈1 in 552listedHala123
BD Bangladesh#217≈120,000 est.≈1 in 1.4K—Nila38
IN India—≈100,000 est.≈1 in 14K1.4KNilu96
SY Syria#56≈70,000 est.≈1 in 3521Hala53
JO Jordan#285≈42,000 est.≈1 in 273—Hala96
SA Saudi Arabia#272≈36,000 est.≈1 in 984—Hala116
SE Sweden—1,5051 in 6.8K1.5KHala33
IS Iceland—501as Halla1 in 700535——

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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005). 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)

Hâla is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Ukrainian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Syria, Türkiye

    Languages: Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Хала, Hala, Xala, Hàlä, Hála

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)

Hâla is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, third-person singular past historic of hâler

    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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Hâla under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Hâla a male or female name?
Hâla is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Hâla have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 211 thousand people named Hâla in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hala.
How common is the name Hâla?
In Sweden, the national register counted 1,505 people named Hâla, about 1 in 6.8 thousand residents.
How common is Hâla compared with other names?
In Egypt, Hâla is the 122nd most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.

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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, “Hâla” — the 122nd most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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