Hava

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Hawa in MY Malaysia, TZ Tanzania, ฮาวา in TH Thailand and Ჰავა in GE Georgia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

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

• English given name22K records spelled Hava10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Germany, United States, Austria

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Khava, Háva, H̶a̶v̶a̶

• Albanian given name11K records spelled Hava2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Albania, Kosovo, United States, Türkiye

  Also written Hãva

• French given name7.7K records spelled Hava3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Belgium, Türkiye, United States

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written H'Ava

• Russian given name3.0K records spelled Hava38 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, North Macedonia

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian

  Also written Хава, Чава, Khava, Ხავა, Chava

• Hebrew given name1.9K records spelled Hava9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Israel, Poland, Lebanon, Romania

  Also written חוה, הבה, Chava, Khava, קאבה

• Spanish given name1.6K records spelled Hava3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Türkiye, United States, Spain

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Havá

42 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●

Hava 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 Turkish, Gökyüzü.

  as a word·TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

• In German, weibl. Vom., neuhebräische Form von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• La Honesta, leal

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• In bgt, interrogative pronoun, what? Used also as indefinite, whatever, anything

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In nlg, what, whatever, which, any, either, of that sort, of what sort

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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●

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 142 years between 1875–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Hava Rexhab. 1880ALAlbanian supercentenarian (1880–2003)
• Hava Mehutanb. 1925ILIsraeli sculpturer
• Hava Lazarus-Yafehb. 1930ILIsraeli Orientalist (1930-1998)
• Hava Pinhas-Cohenb. 1955ILIsraeli poet (1955–2022)
• Etty Atiab. 1960ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli politician
• Hava Siegelmannb. 1964UScomputer scientist
• Hava Brocha Korzakovab. 1969ILClassical studies professor
• Abby Steinb. 1991USnot in their usual nameIsraeli-American author, rabbi, activist (1991-)
• Hava Kohav Bellerb. 2000DEGerman filmmaker
• Chava PeretzILnot in their usual nameprofessor,Researcher and senior lecturer,

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 371 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hava?

We estimate roughly 15 thousand people bear Hava (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Hava have the most bearers?

Hava is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled hava.

How common is Hava compared with other names?

In Türkiye, Hava is the 101st most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.

Is Hava a male or female name?

Hava is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Hava mean?

Recorded meaning: weather