Hohns
surname · Latin script
Meaning: genitive singular of Hohn
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Hohns is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 340Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 480Kfew records
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M
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 Hohns 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 337K (inferred from the name graph)
≈250 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 Hoehns in US United States, CM Cameroon, FO Faroe Islands and Höhns in DE Germany.
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)genitive singular of Hohn
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Hohns is found
(measured from records)Hohns 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 337K | — | Höhns | 36 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 192K | — | Hoehns | 1 |
| US United States | — | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | listed | Hoehns | 74 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 478K | — | Hohns | 26 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | — | Hohns | 3 |
| FO Faroe Islands | #396 | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Hoehns | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | Hohns | 3 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hohns mean, and where does it come from?
- genitive singular of Hohn Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hohns?
- Mondonomo estimates about 248 people named Hohns in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled höhns. After it come Cameroon, United States, Australia and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Hohns?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 6 people named Hohns in 2024, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Hohns compared with other names?
- In Faroe Islands, Hohns is the 396th most common surname of 497 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hohnsThe 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, “Hohns” — the 396th most common surname in Faroe Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.