Given name & surname

Ha

Ha is a surname from Hakka. It is used in Indonesian.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Ha comes from Hakka.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Ha through the years

Babies since 1880
495
73 boys · 422 girls
Most popular year
1984
37 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
—
Too few births to compare
Boys Girls
05101520198020002025Highest share 1984Boys 0.0Girls 0.0
Ha in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1976–2025, per million births of each sex. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2013. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 29 in 1984. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 9,646 as a first name in 2020; 20,388 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

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The ring: spellings.

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Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

People named Ha

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

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Mohawk

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Galician · Modern

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32RareEasing

>99% girls

Irish

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“one who is pure; virginal”

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Ha’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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