Hoaraù
surname · Latin script
Hoaraù is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Réunion it is the 14th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Originating from mainland France where it became extinct until recently. (attested 1640s in Menneville, Picardie Province). Now most prevalent in Réunion. Possibly from Dutch or Middle Dutch.
- RERéunion≈1 in 210few records(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 4.9K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 140K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 258 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 213 (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Réunion, 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 Hoarau in FR France, US United States, AU Australia 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)Originating from mainland France where it became extinct until recently. (attested 1640s in Menneville, Picardie Province). Now most prevalent in Réunion. Possibly from Dutch or Middle Dutch.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Hoaraù is found
(measured from records)Hoaraù 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #219 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | 3.2K | Hoarau | 258 |
| MG Madagascar | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Hoarau | 2 |
| RE Réunion | #14 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 213 | — | Hoarau | 45 |
| US United States | — | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | listed | Hoarau | 74 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 353K | — | Hoarau | 37 |
| BE Belgium | — | 22 | 1 in 533K | 22 | Hoarau | 14 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 136K | listed | — | 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hoaraù mean, and where does it come from?
- Originating from mainland France where it became extinct until recently. (attested 1640s in Menneville, Picardie Province). Now most prevalent in Réunion. Possibly from Dutch or Middle Dutch. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hoaraù?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Hoaraù in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hoarau. After it come Madagascar, Réunion, United States and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Hoaraù?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 22 people named Hoaraù in 2008, about 1 in 533 thousand residents.
- How common is Hoaraù compared with other names?
- In France, Hoaraù is the 219th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hoara%C3%B9The 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, “Hoaraù” — the 219th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.