Hoeke
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hoeke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 55th most common surname.
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.9Kas Hoek(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 13Kas Hook
- USUnited States1 in 25Kas Hook
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 Hoeke itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 405 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
13,437 named Hook, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland, as Hug
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hoke in US United States, EG Egypt, Hoek in NL Netherlands, CH Switzerland, Hook in GB United Kingdom and Höök in SE Sweden.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hoeke 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 13,437as Hook | 1 in 25K | 13K | Hoke | 405 |
| NL Netherlands | #55 | 6,039as Hoek | 1 in 2.9K | 6K | Hoek | 133 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 5,945as Hug | 1 in 1.4K | 5.9K | Hoek | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 58 | Hook | 202 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Hoke | 11 |
| SE Sweden | — | 981as Höök | 1 in 10K | 981 | Höök | 32 |
| FI Finland | — | 636as Höök | 1 in 8.8K | 636 | — | 6 |
13,437 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling hook. 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: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
- Rob Hoekeb. 1939NLvocalist, Boogie-woogie pianist and song writer
- Ruben Hoekeb. 1976NLDutch guitarist
- Eva Hoekeb. 1979NLDutch journalist
- Geerte Hoekeb. 1990NLDutch cyclist
- Ron HoekeAUresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0003-0576-9436
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 10 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 353 | #5,743 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 196 | #98,894 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 189 | #96,368 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 141 | #114,852 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- In which country does Hoeke have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Hook, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hoeke most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Hoeke itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Switzerland's: the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 thousand people named Hug.
- How common is the name Hoeke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,437 people named Hook in 2010, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Hoeke compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Hoeke is the 55th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hoeke?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hoekeThe 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, “Hoeke” — the 55th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.