Höhle
surname · Latin script
Meaning: cave
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈhøːlə/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Höhle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 56K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 130K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 442K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Höhle itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 56K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Hohle in US United States, CA Canada, NO Norway and 1 more and Hoehle in CH Switzerland, AT Austria.
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)cave
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Höhle 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Höhle | 57 |
| US United States | 149 | 1 in 2.2M | 160 | Hohle | 83 |
| CA Canada | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 588K | — | Hohle | 11 |
| CU Cuba | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 183K | — | Hohle | 1 |
| NO Norway | 42 | 1 in 130K | 42 | Hohle | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 19 | 1 in 442K | 19 | Hoehle | 7 |
| AT Austria | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 579K | — | Hoehle | 7 |
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 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Wilhelm Richard Höhleb. 1890NLDutch photographer (1890-1952)
- Helmi Höhleb. 1924DEGerman fencer
- Thomas Höhleb. 1926DEGerman historian (1926-2012)
- Eva-Maria Höhleb. 1948ATAustrian art historian
- Barbara Höhleb. 1957DEresearcher
- Michael HöhleSEresearcher, Stockholm University
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 19 | #37,994 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Höhle mean, and where does it come from?
- cave Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- How do you pronounce Höhle?
- In German /ˈhøːlə/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Höhle have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Höhle in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled höhle.
- How common is the name Höhle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 149 people named Höhle in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Höhle?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%B6hleThe 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, “Höhle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.