Hörning
surname · Latin script
Meaning: -ing-Form im Wechsel mit -ig; 598 Träger (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
Hörning is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 7,322 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 36Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 45K
- CACanada≈1 in 50K
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 Hörning 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 338 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
7,322 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Horning in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 1 more, Hørning in DK Denmark and Hoerning in BR Brazil.
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)-ing-Form im Wechsel mit -ig; 598 Träger.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Hörning is found
(measured from records)Hörning 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 | 7,322 | 1 in 45K | 7.3K | Horning | 338 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Hörning | 56 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Horning | 47 |
| CA Canada | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Horning | 85 |
| BR Brazil | 496 | 1 in 427K | 496 | Hoerning | 17 |
| DK Denmark | 246as Hørning | 1 in 24K | 246 | Hørning | 35 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Horning | 19 |
7,322 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)- Willy Hörningb. 1902DEwriter (1902-1976)
- Karl H. Hörningb. 1938DEGerman sociologist
- Dan Hörningb. 1970SESwedish writer
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hörning mean?
- Recorded meaning: -ing-Form im Wechsel mit -ig; 598 Träger.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hörning?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.3 thousand people named Hörning, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled horning. After it come Germany, United Kingdom, Canada and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Hörning?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,322 people named Hörning in 2010, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%B6rningThe 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, “Hörning” — ranked 4726th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.