Hòü

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Hòü is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Chinese 侯 (Hóu).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 74K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 22K
  • FIFinland1 in 45K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

4,500 people, 2010

Sources
323 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hou in US United States, HK Hong Kong and Houe in SE Sweden.

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)

Borrowed from Chinese 侯 (Hóu).

Sources 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wiktionary
  • Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hòü 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.

Where Hòü is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—4,5001 in 74K6.6KHou323
ES Spain—3071 in 163K307—13
DK Denmark—2711 in 22K271—1
SE Sweden—1331 in 77K133Houe15
FI Finland—1241 in 45K124—6
NO Norway—641 in 85K64—5
HK Hong Kong#813———Hou57

4,500 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Hòü under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Hòü mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Chinese 侯 (Hóu). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
Is Hòü a male or female name?
Hòü is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Hòü have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.5 thousand people named Hòü, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hou.
Where is Hòü most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hòü is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 22 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Hòü?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,500 people named Hòü in 2010, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.
How common is Hòü compared with other names?
In Hong Kong, Hòü is the 813th most common surname of 8,142 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, “Hòü” — the 813th most common surname in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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