Höhn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: singular imperative of höhnen (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Höhn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 9.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 14K
- ATAustria≈1 in 66Kfew records
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 Höhn 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
- 279 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Höhn in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hoehn in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 1 more and Hohn in AG Antigua & Barbuda.
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)singular imperative of höhnen
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Höhn is found
(measured from records)Höhn 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 | #489 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | — | Höhn | 107 |
| US United States | — | 3,499as Hoehn | 1 in 95K | 3.6K | Hoehn | 279 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 586 | 1 in 14K | 586 | Höhn | 24 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Hoehn | 54 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 131K | — | Hoehn | 47 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Höhn | 16 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Hoehn | 3 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Hohn | 1 |
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; 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)- Reinhard Höhnb. 1904DEGerman politician and writer (1904-2000)
- Carola Höhnb. 1910DEGerman actress (1910–2005)
- Bärbel Höhnb. 1952DEGerman politician
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Höhn mean, and where does it come from?
- singular imperative of höhnen Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Höhn?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.1 thousand people named Höhn in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled höhn. After it come United States, Switzerland, Canada and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Höhn?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 586 people named Höhn in 2024, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Höhn compared with other names?
- In Germany, Höhn is the 489th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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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%B6hnThe 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, “Höhn” — the 489th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.