Halla

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Halla is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United States. It appears chiefly in English and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: frost, killing frost (below-freezing temperature that occurs at night during the growing season).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 609K◐
  • FIFinland1 in 12K
  • NONorway1 in 54K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.1K ●

across 8 countries

Sources
147 ●

10K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 12K ◐

Finland

Meaning & origin●

frost, killing frost (below-freezing temperature that occurs at night during the growing season)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Halla is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4,6536.5K rec.—439Halla147
FI Finland458△27 rec.1 in 12K458Halla11
DE Germany404481 rec.—1Halla51
GB United Kingdom265362 rec.——Halla26
BR Brazil2630 rec.1 in 805K263—1
CZ Czechia146—1 in 73K146——
MA Morocco143236 rec.——Halla28
NO Norway102△4 rec.1 in 54K102—4
EG Egypt97322 rec.——Halla33
CA Canada7699 rec.—1Halla24
IQ Iraq68123 rec.—1Halla8
AT Austria6152 rec.—3Halla24

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English5K39%
  • Finnish1.7K13%
  • French8837%
  • Czech8386%
  • German6145%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English5,03939%
Finnish1,71313%
French8837%
Czech8386%
German6145%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Halla is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Finnish surname3.3K records spelled Halla3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Estonia, New Zealand

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Hallå

  • Czech surname1.7K records spelled Halla10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Ukraine, Poland, Russia

    Languages: Czech, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Халла, Khalla

  • French surname1.5K records spelled Halla7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Morocco, Belgium

    Also written Hallå, Hālļã, Hâllà, Hàlla, Hàllà

  • Portuguese surname1.4K records spelled Halla8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Mexico, Spain

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Hãllã, Hàllä, Hâllâ, Håĺĺå, Hälla

  • Hindi surname424 records spelled Halla3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  • Turkish surname209 records spelled Halla2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Iraq, United States, Syria

    Also written Håĺĺå

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Halla 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.

  • In English, Alternative form of challah.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • 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.

Over time●

01020301990199520002005201021 · 1997

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Halla in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1987–2012
Yearrecords
19875
19896
19905
19915
19927
199317
199416
199514
199610
199721
199819
199921
200018
200112
200217
200314
200414
200518
200614
20076
20087
20096
20108
20116
20127

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 25 years between 1987–2012. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000Joseph Halla, b. 1814John Halla, b. 1884Franz Halla, b. 1884Onni Halla, b. 1899Jan Halla, b. 1926Paul Halla, b. 1931Heikki Halla, b. 1931Helve Halla, b. 1939Natalie Halla, b. 1975Martin Halla, b. 1988

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●

Attested in 49 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Halla
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)2026839#169
IS IcelandHagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005)2005535#72
IS IcelandHagstofa — population register names 20232023510#90
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—458#7,391
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020439#22,312
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—354#2,565
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—327—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—263#29,416
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—208—
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—146#11,673
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—146#6,488
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—102#15,150

Reference works 5

  • 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)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 112 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Halla?
We estimate roughly 1.1 thousand people bear Halla (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Halla have the most bearers?
Halla is most frequently recorded in the United States, 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 United States holds more of our records for it.
What does the name Halla mean?
Recorded meaning: frost, killing frost (below-freezing temperature that occurs at night during the growing season)
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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 2026-09-12.

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