Höhne
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Höhne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 8.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 117K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 410K
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 Höhne itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,400 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 Hoehne in US United States, AU Australia, CH Switzerland and 1 more and Hohne in ZA South Africa, NG Nigeria, GH Ghana.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Höhne 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 | #620 | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | — | Höhne | 99 |
| US United States | — | 1,155as Hoehne | 1 in 288K | 1.2K | Hoehne | 170 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 889K | — | Hohne | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 232as Hoehne | 1 in 913K | 232 | — | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 393K | — | Hohne | 12 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 219K | — | Hohne | 2 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 281K | — | Hoehne | 29 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 72 | 1 in 117K | 72 | Hoehne | 12 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 231K | — | Hoehne | 3 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)- Gustav Höhneb. 1893DEGerman General and Knight's Cross recipients (1893-1951)
- Otto Höhneb. 1895DEGerman flying ace (1895–1969)
- Heinz Höhneb. 1926DEGerman journalist and writer
- Klaus Höhneb. 1927DEGerman actor (1927-2006)
- Christoph Höhneb. 1941DEEast German athlete and photographer
- Marina Janickeb. 1954DEnot in their usual nameEast German diver
- Holger Höhneb. 1970DEGerman male curler and coach
- Maike Mia Höhneb. 1971DEGerman film director, screenwriter, film producer and film curator
- André Höhneb. 1978DEathletics competitor
- Mia Höhneb. 2000DEGerman female curler
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.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 72 | #14,223 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- In which country does Höhne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.4 thousand people named Höhne in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled höhne.
- How common is the name Höhne?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 72 people named Höhne in 2024, about 1 in 117 thousand residents.
- How common is Höhne compared with other names?
- In Germany, Höhne is the 620th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Höhne?
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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%B6hneThe 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, “Höhne” — the 620th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.