Hash
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Lesotho IEC 2022 National Assembly candidate lists, 2022
/hæʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hash is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 62K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 95K
- IEIreland≈1 in 31K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 304 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
5,397 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hash 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 5,397 | 1 in 62K | 6.4K | Hash | 304 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Hash | 45 |
| IN India | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 2M | 2 | — | 26 |
| IT Italy | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 173K | — | Hash | 5 |
| CA Canada | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Hash | 35 |
| IE Ireland | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Hash | 3 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Hash | 3 |
| SG Singapore | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Hash | 8 |
| LS Lesotho | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 53K | 1 | — | 1 |
5,397 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Lesotho IEC 2022 National Assembly candidate lists. 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)Hash is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Americanized spelling of German Hasch.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Danish, hash, hashish Not used anymore to denote dried herbs.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, hash (key generated by a hash function)
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)- Herb Hashb. 1911USAmerican baseball player
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.4K | #5,067 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.4K | #6,325 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.9K | #6,613 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 66 | #4,942 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 52 | #23,361 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 16 | #2,015 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #7,358 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #52,036 |
| LS Lesotho | Lesotho IEC 2022 National Assembly candidate lists | 2022 | 1 | #13 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Hash mean, and where does it come from?
- Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Hash?
- In the etymology graph, Hashish is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Hash?
- A machine transcription gives /hæʃ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hash have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.4 thousand people named Hash, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hash.
- How common is the name Hash?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,397 people named Hash in 2010, about 1 in 62 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Hash?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hashThe 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, “Hash”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.