The Havel surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,066 people carried this name — #14,458 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 142,900 people counted. That is up 3% from 2,010 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Havel surname
From Old Irish Gall, the name of a seventh-century Irish monk, missionary to Swabia, from the Latin cognomen Gallus, originally from gallus (“cock”) but later associated with Gallus (“Gaul”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Havel» (Czech), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 235 people named Havel.
10 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 22 départements, most often Seine-Maritime.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
34 people named Havel live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in St. Gallen.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
39 people named Havel is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Havel in American newspapers,
1907–1909.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 41,159 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Havel,
with a public archive behind them.
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Saint Gall 550–645 · writer -
Lipót Havel 1847–1933 · architect -
Vácslav Havel 1861–1921 · architect -
Vácslav Havel 1861–1921 · architect
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Václav Havel 1778–1826 · composer
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Josef Havel 1778–1838
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Havel.
- Hauswald 189 · U.S. census
- Hauswirth 619 · U.S. census
- Haut 680 · U.S. census
- Hauter 557 · U.S. census
- Havard 3,495 · U.S. census
- Havas 276 · U.S. census
- Haverland 688 · U.S. census
- Hawkins 139,751 · U.S. census
- Hay 18,029 · U.S. census
- Hayat 778 · U.S. census
- Haye 1,558 · U.S. census
- Hayer 651 · U.S. census
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