Haefliger
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɐɛfliʒeɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Haefliger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.2Kas Häfliger(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2.2Mas Hafliger
- BRBrazil1 in 373K
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 Haefliger 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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- 1 in 373K (inferred from the name graph)
3,877 named Häfliger, 2024
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hafliger in US United States, BR Brazil, AR Argentina and 2 more.
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)
Haefliger 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | #276 | 3,877as Häfliger | 1 in 2.2K | 3.9K | Haefliger | 55 |
| BR Brazil | — | 567 | 1 in 373K | 567 | Hafliger | 13 |
| US United States | — | 152as Hafliger | 1 in 2.2M | 153 | Hafliger | 89 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 81as Hafliger | 1 in 42K | 81 | Hafliger | 9 |
| AR Argentina | — | 60as Hafliger | 1 in 758K | 60 | Hafliger | 20 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 722K | — | Hafliger | 1 |
3,877 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024, counting the spelling häfliger. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Louis Häfligerb. 1904CHSwiss bank accountant, delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (1904-1993)
- Hans Häfliger [Haefliger]b. 1912CH(1912-1953)
- Paul Haefligerb. 1914AUAustralian artist (1914–1982)
- Ernst Haefligerb. 1919CHSwiss tenor (1919–2007)
- Arthur Häfliger [Haefliger]b. 1919CH(1919-2011)
- André Haefligerb. 1929CHSwiss mathematician (1929–2023)
- Leopold Haefligerb. 1929CHSwiss painter (1929-1989)
- Michael Haefligerb. 1961CHSwiss arts administrator (born 1961)
- Andreas Haefligerb. 1962CHSwiss musician
- Othmar Haefligerb. 1963CHSwiss bicycle racer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 567 | #15,198 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 45 | #20,234 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 16 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Haefliger?
- A machine transcription gives /ɐɛfliʒeɾ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Haefliger have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named Häfliger, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Haefliger most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Haefliger is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 373 thousand people — even though Switzerland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Haefliger?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 567 people named Haefliger, about 1 in 373 thousand residents.
- How common is Haefliger compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Haefliger is the 276th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Haefliger?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/haefligerThe 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, “Haefliger” — the 276th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.