Half
loc · Latin script
Meaning: ikekele; 7.e.kekele, piece, part, fragment ; half a fathom, yard, kpanda
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Half is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- CACanada
- USUnited States
- NZNew Zealand
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 110 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)ikekele; 7.e.kekele, piece, part, fragment ; half a fathom, yard, kpanda. Neguru gekele. Half-cleaned rice, ma- gbo-ba
Cited for this meaning 1
- Vocabulary of the Mende Language
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Half counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 156 | Half | 110 |
| CA Canada | — | — | Half | 29 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | Half | 23 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | — | Half | 7 |
| RU Russia | — | — | Half | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 97 | — | 27 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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)Half is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
metonymic occupational name for an assistant of some kind, or nickname for a helpful person, from an agent noun based on Middle High German helf'help’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In goh, first/third-person singular past indicative of hëlfan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, first/third-person singular preterite of helfen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In osx, side
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)- Robert Halfb. 1918USAmerican human resource consultant and writer, founder of Robert Half International
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 156 | #117,879 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 131 | #129,825 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 122 | #128,797 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 40 | #122,472 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Half come from?
- ikekele; 7.e.kekele, piece, part, fragment ; half a fathom, yard, kpanda. Neguru gekele. Half-cleaned rice, ma- gbo-ba Recorded by Vocabulary of the Mende Language.
- What does the name Half mean?
- Recorded meaning: ikekele; 7.e.kekele, piece, part, fragment ; half a fathom, yard, kpanda.
- In which country does Half have the most bearers?
- Half is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled half.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/halfThe 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, “Half”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.