Haja

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Haja is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 576K(measured from records)
  • LVLatvia1 in 86K
  • ESSpain1 in 327K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

577 people, 2020

Sources
158 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 86K (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Haja 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 Haja is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5771 in 576K551Haja158
ES Spain1531 in 327K153Haja14
SE Sweden251 in 408K25—3
LV Latvia221 in 86K22—2
NL Netherlands151 in 1.2M20Haja11
FI Finland61 in 929K45——

577 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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)

Haja is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Malay given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Morocco

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Hãjâ, Hãjă

  • French given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Morocco, Belgium

    Also written Häjâ, Hàjà, Hájâ, Hàjâ

  • Arabic given name24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kuwait, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria

    Also written Hãjă, Hajà, Hàjà, Hâjâ, Hăja

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Hājā

  • Spanish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Philippines, India

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Hájá

54 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)

Haja is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Hungarian, third-person singular single-possession possessive of haj

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Albanian, first-person singular imperfect of ha

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, to understand, to follow, to get

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, trouble, problems, difficulties

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Galician, inflection of haver:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Hausa, goods, merchandise

    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)

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 43 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Haja
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—28#66,861
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—28#65,950
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200720#49,140
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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

Is Haja a male or female name?
Haja is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What are other forms of the name Haja?
In the etymology graph, Hajina is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Haja have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 577 people named Haja, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled haja.
Where is Haja most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Haja is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 86 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Haja?
In the United States, the national register counted 577 people named Haja in 2020, about 1 in 576 thousand 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, “Haja”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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