Huka
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries
/huka/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Huka is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 13th most common surname.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 220as Haque(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 3.8Kas Haq
- BHBahrain≈1 in 4.6Kfew recordsas Haque
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Huka itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- #967 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 290 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 216 (inferred from the name graph)
≈800,000 named Haque, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est., as Haque
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Haque in IN India, US United States, BD Bangladesh and 2 more, Haq in PK Pakistan, AE United Arab Emirates and Hak in ID Indonesia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Huka 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #13 | ≈800,000 est. | ≈1 in 216 | listed | Haque | 192 |
| PK Pakistan | #81 | ≈65,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | 16 | Haq | 137 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Hak | 59 |
| US United States | — | 13,437as Hook | 1 in 25K | 13K | Haque | 290 |
| IN India | #197 | 5,878as Haq | 1 in 226K | 5.9K | Haque | 160 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #96 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Haq | 75 |
| QA Qatar | #168 | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Haque | 24 |
| BH Bahrain | #153 | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Haque | 21 |
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; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)Huka is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In lua, to make a charm or medicine or fetish or idol or image (to be used as fetish).
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
In Swedish, to go down into or be in a (half) sitting position; to squat, to crouch
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Māori, snow, foam, froth, any white form of precipitation
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bpz, to open
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In nyo, insect
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In alu, wife
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #29,574 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Huka?
- In Swahili /huka/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Huka a male or female name?
- Huka is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Huka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 802 thousand people named Haque in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Huka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,437 people named Hook in 2010, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Huka compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Huka is the 13th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Huka?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hukaThe 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, “Huka” — the 13th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.