HAANRADE (Settlement) DutchFrom 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) EnglishFrom Old English
heg "hay" and
leah "woodland, clearing". This is the name of a town in Oxfordshire, England.
HAMILTON (Settlement) EnglishMeans
"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) KoreanFrom 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) EnglishFrom Old English
hara "hare" and
denu "valley". This is the name of a town in West Yorkshire.
HAREL (Other) Biblical HebrewMeans
"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) EnglishFrom Old English
heort "hart, male deer" or
here "army" combined with
ford "ford, river crossing". This is the name of towns in England.
HARLEY (Settlement) EnglishFrom Old English
hara "hare" and
leah "woodland, clearing". This is the name of towns in England.
HASE (Settlement) JapaneseEtymologically 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) ArmenianFrom 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).
HIND (Country) ArabicArabic form of
INDIA, usually written with the definite article:
الهند (al-Hind).
HIRA (Other) ArabicMeaning unknown. This is the name of the cave near Mecca where the Prophet
Muhammad received his first revelation.
HOFWEGEN (Settlement) DutchFrom Dutch
hof meaning "garden, courtyard" and
weg meaning "way, path, road". This is the name of a town in the Netherlands.
HOLLAND (1) (Political Subdivision & Country) Dutch, English, GermanFrom Old Dutch
holt "forest" and
lant "land". This is the name of two provinces (North and South Holland) in the Netherlands. It is sometimes used to refer to the entire country of the
Netherlands.
HOLLAND (2) (Settlement) EnglishFrom Old English
hoh "point of land, heel" and
land "land". This is the name of several towns in England.
HOLLANDE (Political Subdivision & Country) FrenchFrench form of
HOLLAND (1), referring to the provinces and sometimes the entire country.
HOLSTEIN (Political Subdivision & Region) German, English, DutchFrom 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.
HOŘOVICE (Settlement) CzechFrom Czech
hora meaning "mountain". This is the name of a town in the Czech Republic.
HOTAKA (Mountain) JapaneseFrom Japanese
穂 (ho) meaning "grain" and
高 (taka) meaning "tall". This is the name of a mountain in Japan.
HOUSTON (Settlement) Scottish, EnglishMeans
"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) EnglishFrom 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) EnglishFrom 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) EnglishFrom Old English
hux "insult, scorn" (possibly) and
leah "woodland, clearing". This is the name of a town in Cheshire, England.