Homa

loc · Latin script

Meaning: fever

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

Homa is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • TNTunisia
  • USUnited States

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
232 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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)

fever

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Homa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Homa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1.4KHoma232
TN Tunisia——Homa3
PL Poland—986—2
BR Brazil—212—1
SE Sweden—188—12
NO Norway—124—4

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 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)

Homa is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Homa', Хомо, Khomo

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Homá, Homā

  • Bulgarian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia

    Also written Хома

  • Danish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark

    Also written Homaa, Homå

47 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)

Homa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swahili, Kiswahili: 'fever'.

    as a nameAfrican Names

  • In German, short form of Hoch or Hug

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • oblation.

    as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

  • In pi, present/imperative active first-person plural of hoti (“to be”)

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

  • In English, Alternative form of haoma (“sacred plant”).

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

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)

190019201940196019802000Homa Shaibany, b. 1913Edmund Homa, b. 1927Homa Nategh, b. 1934Homa Darabi, b. 1940Homa Sarshar, b. 1946Homa Rousta, b. 1946Homa Hoodfar, b. 1950Homa Arkani, b. 1983Max Homa, b. 1990

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 44 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Homa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.4K#18,263
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.4K#19,538
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.4K#19,617
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026986—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—986#3,155
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026939—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—939#3,251
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—212#35,048
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—50#25,817
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—25#21,265
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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

What does the name Homa mean, and where does it come from?
fever Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Homa have the most bearers?
Homa is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled homa.

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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, “Homa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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