Hara
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A name of Siva
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 27 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/aɾɐ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Hara is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 9.7K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 68K
- NONorway1 in 109K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 285 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)
2,603 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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.
Cited for this meaning 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 the surname Hara is found
(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.
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 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)- Hara Takashib. 1856JPPrime Minister of Japan from 1918 to 1921
- Setsuko Harab. 1920JPJapanese actress (1920–2015)
- Hiroshi Harab. 1936JPJapanese architect (1936–2025)
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)Evidence
(measured from records)60 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.
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?
- In Portuguese /aɾɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Hara mean?
- In English, A name of Siva.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hara?
- 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. After it come India, Finland, Poland and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/haraThe 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, “Hara”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.