Haraka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: one who takes away; a rogue; a divisor; a thief
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
/haɾaka/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Haraka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 3M(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 7.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.0M (inferred from the name graph)
446 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)one who takes away; a rogue; a divisor; a thief.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Where in the world
(measured from records)Haraka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 446 | 1 in 3M | 446 | Haraka | 3 |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Haraka | 50 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Haraka | 1 |
| IT Italy | — | — | — | Haraka | 1 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | — | — | Haraka | 8 |
| DZ Algeria | — | — | — | Haraka | 4 |
446 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)Haraka is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, hurry, haste
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Krsna (N)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 446 | #10,024 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 10 | #29,919 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Haraka mean, and where does it come from?
- one who takes away; a rogue; a divisor; a thief. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- How do you pronounce Haraka?
- In Swahili /haɾaka/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Haraka have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 446 people named Haraka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled haraka.
- Where is Haraka most common?
- Haraka is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.0 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Haraka?
- In India, the national register counted 446 people named Haraka, about 1 in 3.0 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/harakaThe 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, “Haraka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.