Halla
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Alternative form of challah
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries
Halla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 12K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 54K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 63Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 171 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈960 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)frost, killing frost (below-freezing temperature that occurs at night during the growing season)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Halla is read
(measured from records)Halla is one spelling over 4 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.
- English51%
Alternative form of challah.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Finnish13%
frost, killing frost (below-freezing temperature that occurs at night during the growing season)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French8.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Halla in French.
- Arabic5.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Halla in Arabic.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Halla 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.
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)Halla 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.
From the place name Halle, Baden 1809.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of hall (“hall”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In urj-fin-pro, frost occurring at night during the growing season
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, genitive/partitive/illative singular of hall
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)- Joseph Hallab. 1814CZAustrian physician
- John Hallab. 1884USProfessional baseball pitcher
- Franz Hallab. 1884ATAustrian chemist (1884–1971)
- Onni Hallab. 1899FIFinnish writer
- Jan Hallab. 1926CZCzech sculptor (1926-1988)
- Paul Hallab. 1931ATAustrian footballer (1931-2005)
- Heikki Hallab. 1931EEEstonian production designer (1931-2000)
- Helve Hallab. 1939EEEstonian costume designer (born 1939)
- Natalie Hallab. 1975ATAustrian screenwriter, film director and film producer
- Martin Hallab. 1988NONorwegian singer
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)52 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 458 | #3,720 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 208 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 102 | #15,150 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- 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
- What does the name Halla mean?
- In English, Alternative form of challah.
- Where does the name Halla come from?
- frost, killing frost (below-freezing temperature that occurs at night during the growing season) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Halla have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 962 people named Halla in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled halla.
- Where is Halla most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Halla is densest in Finland — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though Tanzania holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Halla?
- In Finland, the national register counted 458 people named Halla, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hallaThe 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, “Halla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.