Hosé
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Hosé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 2,276 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: From Middle English hose (“leggings, hose”), from Old English hose, hosa (“hose, leggings”), from Proto-West Germanic *hosā, from Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“coverings, leggings, trousers”), from Proto-Ind.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 52K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 64K
- USUnited States1 in 146K
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 Hosé itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 237 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)
2,276 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Hose in US United States, DE Germany, AU Australia and 2 more and Hoese in ZA South Africa.
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)- Middle Englishhose“leggings“leggings, hose”(measured from records)
- Old Englishhose“hose“hose, leggings”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*hosā(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*husǭ“coverings“coverings, leggings, trousers”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*s(measured from records)
From Middle English hose (“leggings, hose”), from Old English hose, hosa (“hose, leggings”), from Proto-West Germanic *hosā, from Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“coverings, leggings, trousers”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”). Cognates: Compare West Frisian hoas (“hose”), Dutch hoos (“stocking, water-hose”), German Hose (“trousers”). Compare Tocharian A kać (“skin”), Russian кишка́ (kišká, “gut”), Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis, “bladder”), Sanskrit कोष्ठ (koṣṭha, “intestine”). More at sky.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
- Wiktionary
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Hosé is found
(measured from records)Hosé 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 | 2,276 | 1 in 146K | 2.5K | Hose | 237 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Hose | 68 |
| AU Australia | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Hose | 99 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 154K | — | Hose | 81 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 303K | — | Hoese | 10 |
| SG Singapore | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Hose | 7 |
2,276 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hosé mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English hose (“leggings, hose”), from Old English hose, hosa (“hose, leggings”), from Proto-West Germanic *hosā, from Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“coverings, leggings, trousers”), from Proto-Ind… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hosé?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Hosé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hose. After it come Germany, Australia, United Kingdom and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Hosé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,276 people named Hosé in 2010, about 1 in 146 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hos%C3%A9The 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, “Hosé” — ranked 11437th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.