Haward
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Haward is a given name, most frequently recorded in Zambia, where it is the 88th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from ON Hávarðr, 'high or chief warden/guardian'; first attested Hauuart 1066 DB (Y).
- ZMZambia1 in 677◐
- USUnited States1 in 2.2M
- MWMalawi1 in 4.2K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- 5.1K ●
- Sources
- 94 ●
in 5 countries
3.8K records
Official registry-verified
Meaning & origin●
from ON Hávarðr, 'high or chief warden/guardian'; first attested Hauuart 1066 DB (Y)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZM Zambia | #88 | 3,141 | 2 rec. | — | 1 | Haward | 7 |
| US United States | — | 1,404 | 2K rec. | — | 315 | Haward | 94 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 186 | 254 rec. | — | — | Haward | 12 |
| KE Kenya | — | 120 | 35 rec. | — | — | Haward | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 99 | 545 rec. | — | — | Haward | 70 |
| MW Malawi | #379 | 99 | 3 rec. | — | — | Haward | 7 |
| PH Philippines | — | 91 | 62 rec. | — | — | Haward | 8 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 66 | 66 rec. | — | — | Haward | 6 |
| CO Colombia | — | 54 | 25 rec. | — | — | Haward | 15 |
| PE Peru | — | 42 | 43 rec. | — | — | Haward | 8 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | 42 | 42 rec. | — | — | Haward | 8 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 33 | 34 rec. | — | 7 | Haward | 7 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English4.8K79%
- Swahili3646%
- Spanish3446%
- 1342%
- Portuguese351%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 4,759 | 79% |
| Swahili | 364 | 6% |
| Spanish | 344 | 6% |
| 134 | 2% | |
| Portuguese | 35 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Haward is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, a different form of Hayward and Howard
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1917 | 6 |
| 1919 | 6 |
| 1920 | 6 |
| 1921 | 8 |
| 1922 | 11 |
| 1923 | 8 |
| 1924 | 7 |
| 1925 | 7 |
| 1926 | 7 |
| 1927 | 11 |
| 1928 | 10 |
| 1929 | 6 |
| 1930 | 10 |
| 1931 | 10 |
| 1932 | 6 |
| 1933 | 9 |
| 1934 | 7 |
| 1936 | 5 |
| 1937 | 5 |
| 1938 | 5 |
| 1939 | 7 |
| 1940 | 6 |
| 1941 | 6 |
| 1942 | 5 |
| 1956 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 25 years between 1917–1956. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Haward Chalen Aspiazub. 1990ECbadminton 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 315 | #67,529 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 164 | #101,654 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 126 | #133,863 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1927 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1922 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1931 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1930 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1928 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1933 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 8 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 7 | #6,592 |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 · 42 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Haward?
- Our records include 5,127 bearers of Haward across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Haward have the most bearers?
- Haward is most frequently recorded in Zambia, where it is most often spelled haward.
- How common is Haward compared with other names?
- In Zambia, Haward is the 88th most common given name of 8,241 given names recorded there.
- Is Haward a male or female name?
- Haward is a male 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 Haward mean?
- Recorded meaning: from ON Hávarðr, 'high or chief warden/guardian'; first attested Hauuart 1066 DB (Y)
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Haward” — the 88th most common given name in Zambia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.