Hafen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: metonymic occupational name for a potter, from Middle High German hafen ‘pot’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhæfən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hafen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Angola than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 291K(measured from records)
- TCTurks & Caicos Islands≈1 in 5.4K
- AOAngola≈1 in 7.8K
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.
- Angola (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Turks & Caicos Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
metonymic occupational name for a potter, from Middle High German hafen ‘pot’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hafen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AO Angola | #215 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Hafen | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1,145 | 1 in 291K | 1.3K | Hafen | 200 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 207K | — | Hafen | 52 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 241 | 1 in 35K | 241 | Hafen | 24 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Hafen | 1 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | #164 | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Hafen | 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; 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)
Hafen is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, harbor
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In German, harbour/harbor; port; haven
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, from German hafen 'pot'; also 'harbor'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In enm, alternative form of havene
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, past participle of hebban
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)
- John Hafenb. 1856USAmerican artist (1856-1910)
- LeRoy R. Hafenb. 1893USAmerican historian
- Marjorie L. Hafenb. 1922USAmerican author
- Margret Hafenb. 1946DEGerman alpine skier
- Ernst Hafenb. 1956CHSwiss biologist
- Tim HafenUSAmerican politician and general contractor
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 9 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,396 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #22,471 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 948 | #24,680 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 241 | #5,328 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Hafen mean, and where does it come from?
- metonymic occupational name for a potter, from Middle High German hafen ‘pot’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hafen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhæfən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hafen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.2 thousand people named Hafen in Angola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hafen.
- How common is the name Hafen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,145 people named Hafen in 2010, about 1 in 291 thousand residents.
- How common is Hafen compared with other names?
- In Angola, Hafen is the 215th most common surname of 23,432 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hafenThe 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, “Hafen” — the 215th most common surname in Angola. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.