Havel
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in Czech: metonymic occupational name from Middle Dutch houweel, hauweel ‘hoe’, ‘mattock’, ‘pick’, diminutive of Old Dutch hauwa
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Havel is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 26K
- MNMongolia≈1 in 111K
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
3,948 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
metonymic occupational name from Middle Dutch houweel, hauweel ‘hoe’, ‘mattock’, ‘pick’, diminutive of Old Dutch hauwa.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Havel is read(measured from records)
Havel is one spelling over 2 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.
- German66%
from the river Havel; origin name
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- Czech56%
metonymic occupational name from Middle Dutch houweel, hauweel ‘hoe’, ‘mattock’, ‘pick’, diminutive of Old Dutch hauwa.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
metonymic occupational name from Old French haf ‘hook’, ‘pickaxe’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from the personal name Havel (see Gall 2).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Havel 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.
3,948 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)
Havel 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 English, Vaclav, Czech writer & politician
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Russian, var of Gavel.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Gallusb. 550IEnot in their usual nameIrish disciple and saint
- Miloš Havelb. 1899CZCzech entrepreneur and producer (1899-1968)
- Václav Havelb. 1920CZCzechoslovak slalom and sprint canoeist (1920–1979)
- Václav Havelb. 1936CZCzech statesman, playwright, and former dissident, the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic (1936–2011)
- Ivan M. Havelb. 1938CZCzech scientist (1938-2021)
- Jan Havelb. 1942CZCzech ice hockey player and coach
- Jiří Havelb. 1957CZCzech politician and economist
- Lukáš Havelb. 1981CZCzech ice hockey player
- Daniel Havelb. 1991CZCzech canoeist
- Milan Havelb. 1994CZCzech soccer player
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 31 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3.9K | #210 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 3.9K | #210 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 3.9K | #210 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,458 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #13,806 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,844 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 212 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 88 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 70 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 67 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 61 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 59 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Havel mean, and where does it come from?
- metonymic occupational name from Middle Dutch houweel, hauweel ‘hoe’, ‘mattock’, ‘pick’, diminutive of Old Dutch hauwa. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Havel have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named Havel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Havel most common?
- Havel is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Havel?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 3,948 people named Havel, about 1 in 2.7 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/havelThe 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, “Havel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.