Hara

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A name of Siva

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

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

Hara is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 128K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 9.7K
  • PLPoland1 in 68K

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)

2,603 people, 2010

Sources
285 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

‘plain’ or ‘field’; variously written, taken from a place name in Musashi (now Tokyo and Saitama prefectures), and perhaps from other similarly named localities, as well as in the Ryukyu Islands. Listed in the Shinsen shojiroku.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

How Hara is read(measured from records)

Hara is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English35%

    A name of Siva.

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

  • Japanese29%

    ‘plain’ or ‘field’; variously written, taken from a place name in Musashi (now Tokyo and Saitama prefectures), and perhaps from other similarly named localities, as well as in the Ryukyu Islands. Listed in the Shinsen shojiroku.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

    Rōmaji transcription of はら

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

  • Hindi6.5%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Hara in Hindi.

  • Portuguese5.3%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Hara in Portuguese.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hara 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 Hara is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,6031 in 128K2.6KHara285
IN India1,4261 in 930K1.4KHara38
FI Finland5771 in 9.7K577Hara8
PL Poland5671 in 68K289—1
AR Argentina1311 in 347K131—2
NO Norway501 in 109K50—7

2,603 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Harã, Ḥarā

  • Portuguese surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Philippines, Argentina

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Hará, Harã, ́hara, Harä, Hàrä

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, India, Philippines, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Hąrä, Horda

  • Finnish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, India

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written ́hara

  • Polish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, United Kingdom, Philippines

    Also written Hąrä, Håra

62 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)

Hara is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • (Hin) name for Siva (god of destruction); seizer

    as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India

  • name for Siva (god of destruction); seizer

    as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India

  • Istanbul, São Paulo, Buenos Aires

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

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)

1850190019502000Hara Takashi, b. 1856Tamiki Hara, b. 1905Komako Hara, b. 1910Setsuko Hara, b. 1920Minoru Hara, b. 1930Hiroshi Hara, b. 1936Tatsunori Hara, b. 1958Sachie Hara, b. 1978Nobuki Hara, b. 1979Chihiro Hara, b. 1984

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)

FormalDear Mr Hara,
InformalHi Hara,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 60 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Hara
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.6K#11,998
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.5K#11,547
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.9K#14,974
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1.4K#4,142
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—763#1,409
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—577#3,048
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026289—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—289#11,304
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026278—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—278#11,978
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—131—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—50#26,181

Reference works 8

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

Where does the name Hara come from?
‘plain’ or ‘field’; variously written, taken from a place name in Musashi (now Tokyo and Saitama prefectures), and perhaps from other similarly named localities, as well as in the Ryukyu Islands. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Hara?
A machine transcription gives /hɛɹə/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Hara mean?
In English, A name of Siva.
In which country does Hara have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Hara, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hara.
Where is Hara most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hara is densest in Finland — about 1 in 9.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Hara?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,603 people named Hara in 2010, about 1 in 128 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, “Hara”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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