Hobart
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Transferred use of the surname, itself representing a variant of the given name Hubert (A concise dictionary of first names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: SSA, 2023
Hobart is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 3,129 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- ATAustria≈1 in 43Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 70K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 76Kfew records
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 320 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
3,129 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Höbart in AT Austria.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Transferred use of the surname, itself representing a variant of the given name Hubert. In some cases the given name may derive from the city in Tasmania, named from Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckingham, who was Secretary of State for War and the Colonies at the time (1804) when it was founded.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where the surname Hobart is found
(measured from records)Hobart 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 | 3,129 | 1 in 106K | 3.1K | Hobart | 320 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 76K | listed | Hobart | 104 |
| CA Canada | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Hobart | 55 |
| AU Australia | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 70K | 1 | Hobart | 69 |
| AT Austria | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Höbart | 24 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Hobart | 12 |
3,129 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: SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the hanks-first-names-2001 register. 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)Hobart is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, different form of Hubert
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In English, city, Tasmania
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
variant of Hubert.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Irish, This aristocratic English name is sometimes used in Kerry and west Cork as a synonym of Herbert
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
In Russian, var of Gobrat.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)- Garret Hobartb. 1844USvice president of the United States from 1897 to 1899
- Percy Hobartb. 1885GBBritish Army general (1885–1957)
- Hobart Cavanaughb. 1886USAmerican actor (1886-1950)
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hobart mean, and where does it come from?
- Transferred use of the surname, itself representing a variant of the given name Hubert. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hobart?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Hobart, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hobart. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Austria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Hobart?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,129 people named Hobart in 2010, about 1 in 106 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hobartThe 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, “Hobart” — ranked 9678th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.