Hoger
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Germanic personal name Hucger, composed of the elements hug ‘head’, ‘mind’, ‘spirit’ -I- ger ‘spear’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hoger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 47K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 553Kas Hoeger
- ATAustria≈1 in 64K
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 Hoger 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,900 named Hoeger, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hoeger in US United States, BR Brazil, CN China and 1 more and Höger in DE Germany, AT Austria, FR France.
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)
from the Germanic personal name Hucger, composed of the elements hug ‘head’, ‘mind’, ‘spirit’ -I- ger ‘spear’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hoger 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 | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 157K | — | Hoeger | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Höger | 69 |
| US United States | 602as Hoeger | 1 in 553K | 612 | Hoeger | 154 |
| AU Australia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 164K | — | Hoger | 63 |
| FR France | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 471K | 24 | Höger | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Höger | 17 |
| RS Serbia | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Hoeger | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 63 | 1 in 3.4M | 63 | Hoeger | 11 |
| FI Finland | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 121K | 10 | Hoger | 2 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Hoger 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.
South German; nickname for a hunchback, from Middle High German hoger ‘hump’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
variant of Ogier.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Kurdish, Heartfelt friend, close companion
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Russian, var of Oiir.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Dutch, comparative degree of hoog
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)
- Leo Hogerb. 1892DEGerman actor
- Hannelore Hogerb. 1939DEGerman actress
- Nina Hogerb. 1961DEGerman actress
- Sam Hogerb. 1980USAmerican martial artist
- Ivo Hogerb. 1982CZCzech basketball player (born 1982)
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 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 414 | #53,865 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 413 | #50,564 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 389 | #50,468 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 63 | #89,008 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 8 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Hoger mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Germanic personal name Hucger, composed of the elements hug ‘head’, ‘mind’, ‘spirit’ -I- ger ‘spear’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Hoger have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.9 thousand people named Hoeger in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hoger?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 63 people named Hoger, about 1 in 3.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Hoger?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hogerThe 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, “Hoger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.