Around the world, Hoon (Hoon 
, 훈 , ฮุน 
, and others...) is quite a rare mostly masculine, but seldom feminine forename. The given name Hoon is habitual in South Korea, where it is quite a rare predominantly boy's, but very seldom feminine name, Singapore, where it is quite a rare gender-neutral name, and Armenia, where it is a rare boy's name. Measured by absolute frequency, it is the most numerous in South Korea, Egypt, and China. More prevalently, Hoon is the last name as well as the forename.
| VARIANT | COUNTRY |
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| Hoon | Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, China |
| 훈 | South Korea |
| ฮุน | Thailand |
| هون | Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Syria |
| Хун | Kazakhstan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Ukraine |
| 胡恩 | China |
Hoon is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Hoon , the fictional extraterrestrial race from David Brin's Uplift Universe.
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lay hoon SG (b. 1901) |
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| hoon balakram Indian mathematician, IN (b. 1876) |
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| tan hong hoon badminton player, SG (b. 1905) |
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hoon thien how badminton player, MY (b. 1986) |
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| hoon kwak Korean (b. 1941) |
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| hoon thing leong Chief Executive Officer of the coffee shop chain, Kim San Leng (b. 1949) |
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| lim soo hoon Singaporean civil servant, SG (b. 1958) |
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| hian-teck hoon economist (Singapore Management University) (b. 1959) |
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| tan sui hoon badminton player, MY (b. 1963) |
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| moon hoon (b. 1953) |
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| hoon cheng lim chess player (b. 1966) |
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| moon hoon South Korean architect, KR (b. 1968) |
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| hoon lee American actor, US (b. 1973) |
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| hoon-yung hopgood American politician, US (b. 1974) |
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| lee young-hoon (b. 1966) |
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