Hoki
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hoki is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country. In English, recorded as The blue grenadier (Macruronus novaezelandiae), a merluccid hake.
- TCTurks & Caicos Islands≈1 in 49K(inferred from the name graph)
- JPJapan≈1 in 116K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 859K
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.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 59 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Turks & Caicos Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
The blue grenadier (Macruronus novaezelandiae), a merluccid hake.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hoki is read(measured from records)
Hoki is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English35%
The blue grenadier (Macruronus novaezelandiae), a merluccid hake.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Japanese23%
Rōmaji transcription of ほき
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian13%
hockey (the sport)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
hockey
as a wordrecorded as Malaykaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese9.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hoki in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hoki 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 116K | listed | — | — |
| US United States | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | listed | Hoki | 59 |
| BR Brazil | 64 | 1 in 3.3M | 64 | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 11M | — | Hoki | 11 |
| IN India | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 180M | 1 | — | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 859K | — | Hoki | 10 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Hoki | 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hoki 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 Finnish, blue grenadier (Macruronus novaezelandiae), a merluccid hake
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rap, not, expecting an affirmative answer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Kunihito Hokib. 1975JPJapanese teacher
- Takuro Hokib. 1995JPJapanese badminton 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 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1978 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1972 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1970 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1968 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1963 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1996 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1995 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1993 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1992 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1991 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1988 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1985 | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hoki mean, and where does it come from?
- The blue grenadier (Macruronus novaezelandiae), a merluccid hake. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Hoki have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Hoki in Japan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hoki?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 64 people named Hoki, about 1 in 3.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Hoki?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hokiThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Hoki”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.