Hailu
org · Latin script
Meaning: unexplained
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hailu is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- SESweden≈1 in 192K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway≈1 in 225K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 235K
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)
- Sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 192K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sweden, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hai-Lu in CN China.
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)
unexplained.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hailu 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 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 388K | — | Hai-Lu | 17 |
| US United States | 397 | 1 in 838K | 2.2K | — | 190 |
| SE Sweden | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 192K | 265 | — | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 616K | 26 | — | 8 |
| NO Norway | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 225K | 252 | — | 12 |
| FI Finland | 10 | 1 in 557K | 59 | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 235K | listed | — | 3 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
- Kidist Hailu Degaffeb. 1969ETEthiopian artist (born 1969)
- Meseret Hailu Debeleb. 1990ETEthiopian long-distance runner
- Lemlem Hailub. 2001ETEthiopian middle- and long-distance runner
- Msgana Hailub. 2005ETEthiopian athletics competitor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.2K | #13,334 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #22,183 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 578 | #36,531 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 265 | #3,310 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 252 | #6,182 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 59 | #19,633 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 26 | #44,320 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 20 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Hailu mean, and where does it come from?
- unexplained. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Hailu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Hailu in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Hai-Lu.
- How common is the name Hailu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 397 people named Hailu in 2020, about 1 in 838 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Hailu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hailuThe 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, “Hailu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.