HaGa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: written with characters meaning ‘fragrant’ and ‘congratulations’, the name is found mostly in northeastern Japan and is probably taken from a place in Shimotsuke (now Tochigi prefecture) by that name
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhɑɡə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
HaGa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 111K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 171K
- NONorway1 in 1.2K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 249 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,500 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
written with characters meaning ‘fragrant’ and ‘congratulations’, the name is found mostly in northeastern Japan and is probably taken from a place in Shimotsuke (now Tochigi prefecture) by that name.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
HaGa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 164K | — | HaGa | 5 |
| NO Norway | 4,702 | 1 in 1.2K | 4.7K | HaGa | 53 |
| US United States | 2,994 | 1 in 111K | 3K | HaGa | 249 |
| FI Finland | 583 | 1 in 9.6K | 583 | HaGa | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | HaGa | 48 |
| SE Sweden | 343 | 1 in 30K | 343 | HaGa | 12 |
| IE Ireland | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | HaGa | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | HaGa | 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
HaGa 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 Norwegian, habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads in southern Norway, so named from Old Norse haga, dative case of hagi ‘enclosure’. This surname is also established in Sweden.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Norwegian Nynorsk, to arrange, to order
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In men, to cut up, away ; to shape, to fit; to carve from wood; as, haga- ndende, the carving a canoe
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In Lithuanian, The Hague (the administrative capital of the Netherlands)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mnv, pandanus, of great value for thatch and mats
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Hideo Hagab. 1921JPJapanese photographer and folklore researcher (1921-2022)
- Noboru Hagab. 1926JPJapanese historian
- Michiya Hagab. 1958JPJapanese politician
- Paul-Ottar Hagab. 1965NONorwegian actor
- Yuria Hagab. 1977JPJapanese actress and model
- Chad Hagab. 1988USAmerican cyclist
- Ryūnosuke Hagab. 1991JPJapanese mixed martial artist
- Ragnhild Hagab. 1991NONorwegian cross-country skier
- Asahi Hagab. 2000JPJapanese association football player
- Akane Hagab. 2002JPJapanese singer, dancer and model
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 37 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- 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
- What does the name HaGa mean, and where does it come from?
- written with characters meaning ‘fragrant’ and ‘congratulations’, the name is found mostly in northeastern Japan and is probably taken from a place in Shimotsuke (now Tochigi prefecture) by that name. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce HaGa?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɑɡə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does HaGa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.5 thousand people named HaGa in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled HaGa.
- Where is HaGa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, HaGa is densest in Norway — about 1 in 1.2 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name HaGa?
- In Norway, the national register counted 4,702 people named HaGa, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hagaThe 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, “HaGa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.