Haham
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Haham is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 4.9Kas חכם(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 13M
- RORomania≈1 in 23Kas חכם
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 Haham 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.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13M (inferred from the name graph)
1,766 named חכם, 2017
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled חכם in IL Israel, IR Iran, RO Romania and 3 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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Haham 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #431 | 1,766as חכם | 1 in 4.9K | 1.8K | חכם | 41 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | חכם | 2 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | חכם | 2 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | חכם | 2 |
| IR Iran | — | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 907K | — | חכם | 1 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | חכם | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 3 | 1 in 13M | 4 | — | 2 |
1,766 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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)
Haham is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In lad, rabbi, sage
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, shochet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Albanian, rabbi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, HAHÁM, hahami, s. m. 1. Persoană însărcinată cu tăierea rituală a vitelor și a păsărilor la mozaici. 2. (Înv.) Rabin.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #263,346 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Haham have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named חכם, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Haham most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Haham is densest in Poland — about 1 in 13 million people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Haham?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3 people named Haham in 2026, about 1 in 13 million residents.
- How common is Haham compared with other names?
- In Israel, Haham is the 431st most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Haham?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hahamThe 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, “Haham” — the 431st most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.