Hóü
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hóü is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 4,500 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Chinese 侯 (Hóu).
- DKDenmark1 in 22K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 45K
- USUnited States1 in 74K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
4,500 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hou in US United States.
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).
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Hóü is found
(measured from records)Hóü 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.
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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hóü 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 Hóü a male or female name?
- Hóü 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hóü?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.5 thousand people named Hóü, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hou. After it come Spain, Denmark, Sweden and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Hóü most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hóü 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 Hóü?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,500 people named Hóü in 2010, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%B3%C3%BCThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Hóü” — ranked 5144th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.