Hòód
surname · Latin script
Hòód is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English hood, hod, from Old English hōd, from Proto-Germanic *hōdaz (cognate with Saterland Frisian Houd, West Frisian/Dutch hoed, German Low German Hood, German Hut).
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 4.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 5.2K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 5.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 489 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
55,174 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Grenada
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hood in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Englishhood(measured from records)
- Old Englishhōd(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*hōdazcognate with Saterland Frisian Houd(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*kadʰ-“to cover”(measured from records)
From Middle English hood, hod, from Old English hōd, from Proto-Germanic *hōdaz (cognate with Saterland Frisian Houd, West Frisian/Dutch hoed, German Low German Hood, German Hut). Cognate with Proto-Iranian *xawdaH (“hat”) (compare Avestan 𐬑𐬂𐬛𐬀 (xåda), Old Persian 𐎧𐎢𐎭 (x-u-d /xaudā/)), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to cover”). More at hat.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hòód counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #564 | 55,174 | 1 in 6K | 55K | Hood | 489 |
| GB United Kingdom | #519 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Hood | 233 |
| CA Canada | #684 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 1 | Hood | 168 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 4 | Hood | 21 |
| AU Australia | #591 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | 1 | Hood | 162 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Hood | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | #440 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Hood | 83 |
| GD Grenada | — | 52 | 1 in 2.2K | 52 | — | 7 |
55,174 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hòód mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English hood, hod, from Old English hōd, from Proto-Germanic *hōdaz (cognate with Saterland Frisian Houd, West Frisian/Dutch hoed, German Low German Hood, German Hut). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Hòód have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 55 thousand people named Hòód, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hood.
- Where is Hòód most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hòód is densest in Grenada — about 1 in 2.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hòód?
- In the United States, the national register counted 55,174 people named Hòód in 2010, about 1 in 6.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Hòód compared with other names?
- In the United States, Hòód is the 564th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hòód” — the 564th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.