Hösch
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Personenname aus mhd
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hösch is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Zimbabwe than in any other country. In the Seychelles it is the 4th most common surname.
- DEGermany≈1 in 109K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 202K
- ZWZimbabwe≈1 in 1K
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.
- Zimbabwe (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 211 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Zimbabwe, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hosch in US United States, GB United Kingdom, SC Seychelles and 3 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)
Personenname aus mhd. hövesch 'fein, gebildet'; 447 Belege.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hösch 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZW Zimbabwe | #797 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Hosch | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1,643 | 1 in 202K | 1.6K | Hosch | 211 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Hösch | 59 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 290K | — | Hosch | 15 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 841K | — | Hosch | 2 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Hösch | 22 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 51 | 1 in 165K | 51 | Hosch | 13 |
| SC Seychelles | #4 | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Hosch | 2 |
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; 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)
- Adrian Hoeschb. 1993USnot in their usual nameGerman-American Samoan sailor
- Alina Höschb. 1997DEGerman volleyball player
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)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 9 | #65,843 |
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 Hösch mean?
- Recorded meaning: Personenname aus mhd.
- In which country does Hösch have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Hösch in Zimbabwe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hosch.
- How common is the name Hösch?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,643 people named Hösch in 2010, about 1 in 202 thousand residents.
- How common is Hösch compared with other names?
- In Zimbabwe, Hösch is the 797th most common surname of 9,561 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%B6schThe 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, “Hösch” — the 797th most common surname in Zimbabwe. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.