Hodgkiss

surname · Latin script

Meaning: patronymic from a pet form of the personal name Hodge

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈhɑdʒkɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Hodgkiss is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom
  • USUnited States
  • AUAustralia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

patronymic from a pet form of the personal name Hodge.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Hodgkiss 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 English, A surname originating as a patronymic.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, a different form of Hodgkins.

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

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)

18001850190019502000John Hodgkiss, b. 1821Ivor John Hodgkiss, b. 1943David Hodgkiss, b. 1948Ed Hodgkiss, b. 1970Jared Hodgkiss, b. 1986Amber Hodgkiss, b. 1989

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)

FormalDear Hodgkiss,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 3 countries.

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Hodgkiss mean, and where does it come from?
patronymic from a pet form of the personal name Hodge. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Hodgkiss?
A machine transcription gives /ˈhɑdʒkɪs/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Hodgkiss have the most bearers?
Hodgkiss is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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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, “Hodgkiss”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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