Honna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: to possess
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries
/honə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Honna is a female given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.
- INIndia
- JPJapan
- PHPhilippines
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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)to possess
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Honna 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 kw, that one
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, that
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 56 | #96,827 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #56,048 |
| JP Japan | Japanese, Chinese, Korean Surnames (Hadamitzky, 1998) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Honna?
- A machine transcription gives /honə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Honna mean, and where does it come from?
- to possess Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- Is Honna a male or female name?
- Honna is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Honna have the most bearers?
- Honna is most frequently recorded in India.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/honnaThe 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, “Honna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.