Hölle
surname · Latin script
Meaning: toponymic from Hölle/Helle 'deep ravine, hollow'; also used for place names
Hölle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 35K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 150K
- USUnited States1 in 159K
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 Hölle 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
- 231 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 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 Holle in US United States, DE Germany, NL Netherlands and 3 more and Hoelle 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)toponymic from Hölle/Helle 'deep ravine, hollow'; also used for place names
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hölle 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 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Holle | 99 |
| US United States | 2,090 | 1 in 159K | 2.1K | Holle | 231 |
| FR France | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 231K | 29 | — | 1 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 244K | 1 | — | 5 |
| PH Philippines | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 625K | — | Holle | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 115 | 1 in 150K | 115 | Holle | 20 |
| AT Austria | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Holle | 25 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Holle | 1 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Hoelle | 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Hölle is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, hell
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In German, as place name: deep wild valley; in Frisia also a deep water hole
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Melitta Hollósb. 1910HUnot in their usual nameHungarian actress (1910–2002)
- Margret Hölleb. 1927DEGerman writer and poet in dialect
- Matthias Hölleb. 1951DEGerman singer and opera singer
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Hölle mean, and where does it come from?
- toponymic from Hölle/Helle 'deep ravine, hollow'; also used for place names Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Hölle?
- In the etymology graph, Hell, Hüllen and Höllisch are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Hölle have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Hölle in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled holle.
- How common is the name Hölle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,090 people named Hölle in 2010, about 1 in 159 thousand residents.
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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%B6lleThe 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, “Hölle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.