Haba

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: broad bean, horse bean (Fabaceae, Vicia faba)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

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

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 49K(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 152K
  • GNGuinea≈1 in 731

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.

Guinea (inferred from the name graph)

≈17,000 people, est.

Sources
143 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 731 (inferred from the name graph)

Guinea, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from a shortened form of any of various Old Czech traditional personal names formed with habat ‘to take’, or from a pet form of Havel.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

How Haba is read(measured from records)

Haba is one spelling over 6 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English24%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Haba in English.

  • Spanish21%

    broad bean, horse bean (Fabaceae, Vicia faba)

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

  • French15%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Haba in French.

  • Japanese7.7%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Haba in Japanese.

  • Czech6.9%

    from a shortened form of any of various Old Czech traditional personal names formed with habat ‘to take’, or from a pet form of Havel.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

    perhaps a variant of Chaba, from a dialect word meaning ‘rib’ or ‘dry branch’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

    metonymic occupational name from Polish chaba, a kind of coarse white woolen cloth.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • Arabic5.4%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Haba in Arabic.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Haba 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 Haba is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GN Guinea#145≈17,000 est.≈1 in 731listedHaba13
PL Poland—1,2761 in 30K642—1
DZ Algeria—≈1,000 est.≈1 in 41KlistedHaba4
ES Spain—1,0131 in 49K1KHaba87
FR France—≈450 est.≈1 in 152K39Haba143
CZ Czechia—2771 in 39K277——

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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; the gn-sylla-patronymes register; the dz-kaggle-names register. 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)

Haba is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Ukrainian surname20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Czechia

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Polish

    Also written Хаба, Khaba, Hába, Haba', Xaba

  • English surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Philippines, Australia

    Also written Hába

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Hába, Habā

37 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)

Haba 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.

  • favourite

    as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

  • In kne, pronunciation variant of saba

    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)

1850190019502000Alois Hába, b. 1893Karel Hába, b. 1898Mikie Haba, b. 1923Hiroyuki Haba, b. 1957Belgacem Haba, b. 1957Shigemi Haba, b. 1958Yūichi Haba, b. 1961Petr Hába, b. 1965Ryōsuke Haba, b. 1991

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 Haba,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 33 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Haba
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1K#4,364
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1K#4,364
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026642—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—642#5,001
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026634—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—634#4,976
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—87#8,227
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—86#19,156
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197146—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199139—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198136—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196127—

Reference works 8

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

Where does the name Haba come from?
from a shortened form of any of various Old Czech traditional personal names formed with habat ‘to take’, or from a pet form of Havel. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
What are other forms of the name Haba?
In the etymology graph, Fava is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Haba?
A machine transcription gives /haba/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Haba mean?
In Spanish, broad bean, horse bean (Fabaceae, Vicia faba)
In which country does Haba have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Haba in Guinea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled haba.
How common is the name Haba?
In Poland, the national register counted 1,276 people named Haba in 2026, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
How common is Haba compared with other names?
In Guinea, Haba is the 145th most common surname of 427 surnames 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, “Haba” — the 145th most common surname in Guinea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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