Haara

surname · Latin script

Meaning: branch (of a tree)

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

/haɑɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 10K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 78K
  • SESweden1 in 87K

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.

Finland (measured from records)

546 people

Sources
40 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

branch (of a tree)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Haara 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 Haara is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland5461 in 10K546Haara15
SE Sweden1171 in 87K117Haara13
NO Norway701 in 78K70—2
US United States≈35 est.≈1 in 9.5MlistedHaara40
DE Germany≈13 est.≈1 in 6.1M—Haara9
AU Australia≈6 est.≈1 in 4.2M—Haara15

546 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Haara is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Norwegian surname17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Norway, Denmark

    Languages: Norwegian, Swedish, Danish

    Also written Hara, Håra, Hära, Hãra, Hãrã

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Finland

    Also written Häärä

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Häärä, Haâra

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Häärä

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Hààrà

28 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Haara is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Oromo, smoke (of fire)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In izh, branch

    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)

19201940196019802000Sakari Haara, b. 1920Taito Haara, b. 1942Heikki Haara, b. 1982

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 Ms Haara,
InformalHi Haara,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Haara
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—546#3,188
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—242—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—117#6,351
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—70#20,551
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • 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 Haara mean, and where does it come from?
branch (of a tree) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Haara?
A machine transcription gives /haɑɹə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Haara have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 546 people named Haara, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled haara.
Where is Haara most common?
Haara is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 10 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Haara?
In Finland, the national register counted 546 people named Haara, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/haara

The 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, “Haara”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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