Hörst
surname · Latin script
Meaning: second-person singular present of hören
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hörst is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 39th most common given name.
- DEGermany≈1 in 224(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 1.4K
- PLPoland1 in 31K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 259 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 224 (inferred from the name graph)
≈360,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Horst in DE Germany, US United States, AT Austria and 4 more.
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)
second-person singular present of hören
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hörst 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 | #39 | ≈360,000 est. | ≈1 in 224 | — | Horst | 241 |
| AT Austria | #220 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 358 | Horst | 109 |
| US United States | — | 1,503 | 1 in 221K | 9.7K | Horst | 259 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Horst | 31 |
| PL Poland | #813 | 1,243 | 1 in 31K | 1.3K | Horst | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 818 | 1 in 13K | 818 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 205 | Horst | 55 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 39 | Horst | 35 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 8 | #89,757 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Hörst mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular present of hören Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Hörst have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 357 thousand people named Hörst in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled horst.
- How common is the name Hörst?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,503 people named Hörst in 2020, about 1 in 221 thousand residents.
- How common is Hörst compared with other names?
- In Germany, Hörst is the 39th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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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, “Hörst” — the 39th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.