Ha Family History

Chinese: Cantonese form of the surname 夏 meaning ‘summer’; see Xia. Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 何 and 賀 see He 1 and Chinese: Mandarin form of the surname 哈; originally a surname of the Hui people, a Muslim ethnic group in China, also traced back to other minority ethnic groups in northern and northwestern China such as Mongolians.

Korean: written 하 in Chinese characters 河 meaning ‘river’ and 夏 meaning ‘summer’. There are two Ha clans in Korea, each designated by a different Chinese character.

(i) The founding ancestor of the larger Ha clan (Chinese character 河) was Ha Kong-jin (河 拱辰), an official of the Koryŏ period who settled in the Chinju area of Kyŏngsang South province in the 11th century.

(ii) The founding ancestor of the smaller Ha clan (Chinese character 夏) was Ha Hŭm (夏欽), who settled in Talsŏng County near Taegu in Kyŏngsang North province after migrating from Song China some time in the early part of the 12th century.

Compare Har Vietnamese (Hà): from the Chinese surname 何 see He Vietnamese (Hạ): from the Chinese surnames 賀 (see He) or 夏 (see Xia).