Haia

given name · Latin script

Meaning: The Hague (the provincial capital of South Holland, Netherlands)

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/haiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Haia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • JOJordan≈1 in 26K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SYSyria≈1 in 46K
  • ILIsrael≈1 in 112K

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)

≈1,400 people, est.

Sources
51 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)

Jordan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

The Hague (the provincial capital of South Holland, Netherlands)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Haia 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.

Where Haia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈1,400 est.≈1 in 969K—Haia1
SY Syria≈420 est.≈1 in 46K—Haia15
JO Jordan≈420 est.≈1 in 26K—Haia8
EG Egypt≈320 est.≈1 in 327K—Haia16
SA Saudi Arabia≈210 est.≈1 in 165K—Haia24
IL Israel≈77 est.≈1 in 112K—Haia13
BR Brazil291 in 7.3M38Haia20
KW Kuwait≈26 est.≈1 in 114K—Haia16
QA Qatar≈21 est.≈1 in 115K—Haia8

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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Haia is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Haïa, Haîa

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Haia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Basque, Duvoisin interpreta por error 'haya' como sinónimo de pago en VocCB. Cf. VocCB: " Pagoa, pagua, bagoa, phagoa, fagoa, fagua, haya (hêtre)".

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

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)

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)

Informalمرحباً Haia،Hi Haia, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Haia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—38#126,822

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

What does the name Haia mean, and where does it come from?
The Hague (the provincial capital of South Holland, Netherlands) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Haia?
A machine transcription gives /haiə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
Is Haia a male or female name?
Haia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Haia have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Haia in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled haia.
How common is the name Haia?
In Brazil, the national register counted 29 people named Haia in 2022, about 1 in 7.3 million residents.

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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, “Haia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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