Hanga
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Hungarian: heather (various species of the genus Erica)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/hɑŋɡɑ/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Hanga is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- RORomania
- TZTanzania
- KEKenya
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)heather (various species of the genus Erica)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hanga is read
(measured from records)Hanga is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English26%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hanga in English.
- Swahili22%
Born on Thursday.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- Romanian11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hanga in Romanian.
- Hungarian5.2%
heather (various species of the genus Erica)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French5.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hanga in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
- USUnited States
- TZTanzania
- KEKenya
- RORomania
- NGNigeria
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)Hanga is also recorded in 4 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 attempt or make an effort or try or endeavor or strive and then fail, break down, be exhausted, be weak, be fatigued, be tired, be faint, be weary, be worn out, fag, miss aim (gun), forget a person, make a mistake in counting, omit, overlook, not recognize or know a person, give up, succumb, yield, surrender, try in vain.
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
In ang, hanger (implement or tool used to hang something)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, admiration; high esteem
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Shona, helmeted guineafowl
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)- Vladimir Hangab. 1920RORomanian historian (1920-2013)
- Yelena Khangab. 1962RUnot in their usual nameRussian journalist
- Ádám Hangab. 1989HUHungarian basketball player (born 1989)
- Mariana P. HangaGBresearcher
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 22 | #80,353 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 22 | #78,058 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 18 | #6,296 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 11 | #9,781 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 8 | #45,308 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #15,933 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| TZ Tanzania | INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results | 2020 | 1 | #12 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Hanga mean, and where does it come from?
- heather (various species of the genus Erica) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Hanga?
- It depends on the language: in Swahili /hɑŋɡɑ/; in Hungarian /ˈhɒŋɡɒ/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Hanga have the most bearers?
- Hanga is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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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, “Hanga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.