Ha
loc · Latin script
Meaning: abbreviation of hecta (“hectare”)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ha is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common surname.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 232(inferred from the name graph)
- NPNepal≈1 in 40as Sah
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 283as Saha
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 Ha 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)
- #56 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 272 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 232 (inferred from the name graph)
4,643,497 named Sahu
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sah in BR Brazil, NP Nepal, Saha in BD Bangladesh, NL Netherlands and Sahu in IN India.
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)
abbreviation of hecta (“hectare”)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ha 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #8 | 4,643,497as Sahu | 1 in 286 | 4.6M | Sahu | 262 |
| NP Nepal | #747 | ≈760,000 est. | ≈1 in 40 | 4 | Sah | 84 |
| BD Bangladesh | #22 | ≈570,000 est. | ≈1 in 283 | — | Saha | 120 |
| VN Vietnam | #29 | ≈430,000 est. | ≈1 in 232 | listed | Ha | 232 |
| BR Brazil | — | 344,780as Sa | 1 in 614 | 345K | Sah | 28 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 151 | 1 in 114K | 2.3K | Saha | 26 |
4,643,497 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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)
Ha 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 Vietnamese, Summer
as a nameVietnamese Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 37)
In English, Haag, Den [Hague, The]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, city, Netherlands
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, lang., Africa
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, weibl. Vom., ungarische Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- David HaLevi Segalb. 1586UAnot in their usual namePolish Jewish rabbi
- Ha Jinb. 1956CNauthor and poet
- Yuen Biaob. 1957CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor, stuntman and martial artist
- Ha Seung-moob. 1964KRSouth Korean writer
- Faye Wongb. 1969CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong singer-songwriter and actress
- Ha Jung-woob. 1978KRSouth Korean actor (1978-)
- Ha Ji-wonb. 1978KRSouth Korean actress
- Ha Seok-jinb. 1982KRSouth Korean actor
- Celine Songb. 1988KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean-Canadian director and writer
- Gene Hab. 2000USartist
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 65 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 352 | #23,160 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 151 | #13,524 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Ha mean, and where does it come from?
- abbreviation of hecta (“hectare”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Ha have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 4.6 million people named Sahu, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ha?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 151 people named Ha in 2007, about 1 in 114 thousand residents.
- How common is Ha compared with other names?
- In India, Ha is the 8th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/haThe 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, “Ha” — the 8th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.