Given name & surname
Hara
“from the mountainous land”
Hara is used as a given name and a surname. One Hebrew interpretation is “from the mountainous land.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hebrew interpretation is “from the mountainous land.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1954. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hara through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 124
- 0 boys · 124 girls
- Most popular year
- 1985
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #12,368 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,368 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 8 in 1985. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 349 as a first name in 2020; 1,895 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.
Hara’s family of names
Hara has a related form in Harah. Hara has a related form in Harra. Hara has a related form in Harrah.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Hara
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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