Houzé
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
Houzé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of boots and shoes or a nickname for someone noted for his footwear, from Old French ho(u)se, heuse ‘boot’, ‘shoe’.
- USUnited States1 in 370K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 43K
- ESSpain1 in 5.6M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- 1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
899 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Houze in US United States, BE Belgium, GB United Kingdom and 3 more.
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)metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of boots and shoes or a nickname for someone noted for his footwear, from Old French ho(u)se, heuse ‘boot’, ‘shoe’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Houzé 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 | 899 | 1 in 370K | 972 | Houze | 179 |
| BE Belgium | 270 | 1 in 43K | 275 | Houze | 13 |
| ES Spain | 9 | 1 in 5.6M | 9 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Houze | 14 |
| AU Australia | — | — | — | Houze | 16 |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Houze | 17 |
| DZ Algeria | — | — | — | Houze | 1 |
899 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 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)- Alexandre Houzéb. 1837BEBelgian painter (1837-1908)
- Pierre Houzéb. 1911FRFrench aviator (1911-1940)
- Jean-Jacques Houzéb. 1971FRFrench association football player
- Nicolas Houzéb. 1975FRFrench business executive
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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 275 | #6,313 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 270 | #6,194 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Houzé mean, and where does it come from?
- metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of boots and shoes or a nickname for someone noted for his footwear, from Old French ho(u)se, heuse ‘boot’, ‘shoe’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Houzé have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 899 people named Houzé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled houze.
- Where is Houzé most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Houzé is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 43 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Houzé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 899 people named Houzé in 2010, about 1 in 370 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/houz%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, “Houzé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.