Hab
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hab is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 2M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 2.1M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
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 Hab 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0M (inferred from the name graph)
≈56 named Haeb, est.
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Haeb in DE Germany.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hab 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.
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: the dfa-band-5 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Hab is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, foam
as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian
In xgn-pro, sorcery
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In egy, Manuel de Codage transliteration of ḥꜣb.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A habitation or habitation facility.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, clipping of habitant, habitante
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, singular imperative of haben
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)
Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 107 | #1,540 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 50 | #104,821 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 23 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 17 | #87,617 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 15 | #13,537 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 12 | #21,874 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #142,496 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #141,642 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 9 | #129,249 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #27,184 |
Reference works 3
- 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
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
- 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
- In which country does Hab have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 56 people named Haeb in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hab most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hab is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 2.0 million people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hab?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 50 people named Hab, about 1 in 4.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Hab?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/habThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Hab”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.