Habe
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Habe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country. In English, recorded as A member of a certain tribe of Nigeria.
- USUnited States1 in 2.7M(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 13K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈650 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Häbe 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(measured from records)
Hausa (West Africa): former royal family name of Hausa origin
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Habe is read(measured from records)
Habe is one spelling over 5 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.
- English41%
A member of a certain tribe of Nigeria.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French9.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Habe in French.
- Japanese8.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Habe in Japanese.
- German7.2%
Satzname aus der Univerbierung; Typ mit Grundwort/Habe- und entsprechender morphologischer Verkürzung.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
from Habicht
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- Arabic6.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Habe 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Habe 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Habe | 8 |
| DE Germany | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 371K | — | Häbe | 27 |
| SI Slovenia | 168 | 1 in 13K | 168 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 124 | 1 in 2.7M | 124 | Habe | 116 |
| IT Italy | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 574K | — | Habe | 3 |
| AT Austria | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 189K | — | Habe | 16 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 290K | — | Habe | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 175K | listed | — | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Habe is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hausa, Hausa (West Africa): former royal family name of Hausa origin
as a nameAfrican Names
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of habeō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In goh, inflection of habēn:
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)
- France Habeb. 1909SISlovenian photographer
- Hans Habeb. 1911HUHungarian born Austrian writer (1911-1977)
- Tadashige Habeb. 1916JPJapanese malacologist (1916–2001)
- Franc Habeb. 1943SISlovenian politician
- Tomaž Habeb. 1947SISlovene composer
- Katarina Habeb. 1973SISlovene singer
- Asao Haberesearcher
- Dušan HabeSISlovenian researcher
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 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 168 | #2,631 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 124 | #139,059 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 124 | #135,593 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 121 | #129,619 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- Where does the name Habe come from?
- Hausa (West Africa): former royal family name of Hausa origin Recorded by African Names.
- What does the name Habe mean?
- In English, A member of a certain tribe of Nigeria.
- In which country does Habe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 650 people named Habe in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled habe.
- Where is Habe most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Habe is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Habe?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 168 people named Habe, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/habeThe 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, “Habe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.