Høl
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a depression or hole in the bottom of a river or a stream, a cavern
Høl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 971as Hoel(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 245Kas Hoel
- NLNetherlands1 in 5.1Kas Hol
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 Høl itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 212 (measured from records)
- 1 in 971 (inferred from the name graph)
5,628 named Hoel
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway, as Hoel
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hoel in US United States, NO Norway, NL Netherlands and 5 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)
a depression or hole in the bottom of a river or a stream, a cavern
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Høl 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #110 | 5,628as Hoel | 1 in 971 | 5.6K | Hoel | 82 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 3,396as Hol | 1 in 5.1K | 3.4K | Hoel | 59 |
| IN India | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 448K | — | Hoel | 14 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 581K | — | Hoel | 4 |
| US United States | — | 1,358as Hoel | 1 in 245K | 1.4K | Hoel | 212 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Hoel | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 150as Hoel | 1 in 68K | 163 | Hoel | 18 |
| DK Denmark | — | 93as Hoel | 1 in 63K | 93 | Hoel | 34 |
5,628 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Høl is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, a depression in a river or stream or a cavern
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)
- Hilmar Hølb. 1969NONorwegian politician
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 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 36 | #32,136 |
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 Høl mean, and where does it come from?
- a depression or hole in the bottom of a river or a stream, a cavern Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Høl have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 5.6 thousand people named Hoel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Høl most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Høl itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Norway's: the national register counts about 1 in 971 people named Hoel.
- How common is the name Høl?
- In Norway, the national register counted 5,628 people named Hoel, about 1 in 971 residents.
- How common is Høl compared with other names?
- In Norway, Høl is the 110th most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Høl?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%B8lThe 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, “Høl” — the 110th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.