HAANRADE(Settlement)Dutch From Dutch haan "rooster" and raad "advice". This is the name of a small village in the south of the province of Limburg in the Netherlands.
HAILEY(Settlement)English From Old English heg "hay" and leah "woodland, clearing". This is the name of a town in Oxfordshire, England.
HAMILTON(Settlement)English Means "crooked hill" from Old English hamel "crooked, mutilated" and dun "hill". This was the name of a town in Leicestershire, England (which no longer exists). After the town name became a surname, it was used for several other cities, including ones in Scotland, Canada, Australia and the United States.
HANGUK(Region)Korean From Sino-Korean 韓 (han) meaning "Korea" and 國 (guk) meaning "country, land". This is the term used in South Korea to refer to South Korea or the entire Korean Peninsula.
HARDEN(Settlement)English From Old English hara "hare" and denu "valley". This is the name of a town in West Yorkshire.
HAREL(Other)Biblical Hebrew Means "altar, mountain of God" in Hebrew. In the Hebrew Old Testament this name is applied to the altar in the temple in Jerusalem (Ezekiel 43:15).
HARFORD(Settlement)English From Old English heort "hart, male deer" or here "army" combined with ford "ford, river crossing". This is the name of towns in England.
HASE(Settlement)Japanese Etymologically from Japanese 泊 (hatsu) meaning "anchorage" and 瀬 (se) meaning "shallows". The spelling of 長谷 is from a shortening of 長谷 の 泊瀬 (nagatani no hatsuse) meaning "long valley of Hatsuse". This is the name of a place in Sakurai, Japan.
HAYASTAN(Country)Armenian From the Armenian word հայ (hay) meaning "Armenian" combined with the Persian suffix ستان (stan) meaning "land of". This is the Armenian name for Armenia.
HAYK(Country)Armenian (Archaic) From the Armenian word հայ (hay) meaning "Armenian", of uncertain ultimate origin. Some theories claim it is from the name of the Armenian hero HAYK, though it is more likely that they simply derive from the same source. This is an archaic Armenian name for Armenia; the modern name is Հայաստան (Hayastan).
HOLANDIYA(Country)Bulgarian Bulgarian form of HOLLAND (1), referring to the provinces and sometimes the entire country.
HOLLAND (1)(Political Subdivision & Country)Dutch, English, German, Danish, Icelandic From Old Dutch holt "forest" and lant "land". This is the name of two provinces (North and South Holland) in the Netherlands. It is sometimes informally used to refer to the entire country of the Netherlands.
HOLLAND (2)(Settlement)English From Old English hoh "point of land, heel" and land "land". This is the name of several towns in England.
HOLSTEIN(Political Subdivision & Region)German, English, Dutch From the name of a Saxon tribe, derived from Old Saxon holt meaning "wood" and sat meaning "inhabitant". This is the name of a historical region in Germany, near the Danish border. It forms part of the name of the modern German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
HOTAKA(Mountain)Japanese From Japanese 穂 (ho) meaning "grain" and 高 (taka) meaning "tall". This is the name of a mountain in Japan.
HOUSTON(Settlement)Scottish, English Means "Hugh's town", from the given name HUGH and Old English tun meaning "enclosure, town". This is the name of a town in Scotland. The American city of Houston is named after the Texas president Sam Houston (1793-1863), whose surname is derived from the Scottish town.
HUNGARY(Country)English From Latin Hungaria, derived from Byzantine Greek Οὔγγροι (Oungroi), from Turkic Onogur meaning "ten tribes". This is the name of a country in eastern Europe that was settled by the Hungarians in the 9th century. Because they were identified with the Huns, the H was added to the beginning of their Latin name. The Hungarian name for the country is Magyarország.
HUNNACOTT(Settlement)English From Old English hunig "honey" or the given name Huna combined with cot "cottage". This is the name of a small town in Devon, England.
HUXLEY(Settlement)English From Old English hux "insult, scorn" (possibly) and leah "woodland, clearing". This is the name of a town in Cheshire, England.