Hovestadt
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/həʊvstæt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hovestadt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 64K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 223K
- AOAngola≈1 in 241K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- 1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
2 other spellings are 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hovestadt 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 830K | — | Hovestadt | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 223K | — | Hovestadt | 61 |
| NL Netherlands | 268 | 1 in 64K | 268 | Hovestadt | 21 |
| AO Angola | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 241K | — | Hovestadt | 1 |
| US United States | 129 | 1 in 2.6M | 129 | Hovestadt | 84 |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | Hovestadt | 6 |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Heinrich Hovestadtb. 1850DEDr. phil. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 1873
- Thomas HovestadtDEresearcher
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 268 | #7,714 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 129 | #131,379 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 121 | #141,309 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| 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
- How do you pronounce Hovestadt?
- A machine transcription gives /həʊvstæt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hovestadt have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Hovestadt in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hovestadt.
- Where is Hovestadt most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hovestadt is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 64 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hovestadt?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 268 people named Hovestadt in 2007, about 1 in 64 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Hovestadt?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hovestadtThe 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, “Hovestadt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.