Haviland
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Haveland in Membury, Devon; first attested Arthur Haviland 1662–4 HTDo
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈheɪviɫənd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Haviland is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 98K(measured from records)
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 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 98K (inferred from the name graph)
3,410 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
from Haveland in Membury, Devon; first attested Arthur Haviland 1662–4 HTDo
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Haviland 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,410 | 1 in 98K | 3.4K | Haviland | 8 |
| FR France | — | — | 3 | — | — |
| CL Chile | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | — | listed | — | — |
3,410 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Haviland 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, habitational name from Haveland in Membury, Devon, probably named in Old English with hcefer ‘hegoat’ + land ‘tract of land’, ‘estate’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, French china
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- John Havilandb. 1785GBEnglish physician
- John Havilandb. 1792USEnglish-born American architect
- Thomas Heath Havilandb. 1822CACanadian politician (1822-1895)
- Paul Burty Havilandb. 1880FRFrench-American photographer and writer (1880-1950)
- Maud Doria Havilandb. 1889GBEnglish ornithologist, entomologist, explorer, lecturer, photographer, writer and scientific illustrator (1889-1941)
- Suzanne Lalique-Havilandb. 1892FRFrench painter, designer (1892-1989)
- Virginia Havilandb. 1911USAuthor, Librarian (1911–1988)
- James W. Havilandb. 1911USAmerican physician (1911–2007)
- Julian Havilandb. 1930GBPolitical Editor of ITN and The Times
- David B. Havilandb. 1961SEphysicist
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)
Attested in 12 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.4K | #9,531 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.3K | #9,090 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.3K | #9,430 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 3 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Haviland mean, and where does it come from?
- from Haveland in Membury, Devon; first attested Arthur Haviland 1662–4 HTDo Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Haviland?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈheɪviɫənd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Haviland have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Haviland, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled haviland.
- Where is Haviland most common?
- Haviland is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 98 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Haviland?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,410 people named Haviland in 2010, about 1 in 98 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/havilandThe 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, “Haviland”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.