Horner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from place names Horn/ Hornau or from 'horn-blower, horn-worker'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hɒɹnɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Horner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 8.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 12K
- USUnited States1 in 14K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 421 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 place names Horn/ Hornau or from 'horn-blower, horn-worker'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Horner 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 | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Horner | 7 |
| US United States | — | 23,881 | 1 in 14K | 24K | Horner | 421 |
| GB United Kingdom | #797 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Horner | 201 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Horner | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Horner | 157 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Horner | 46 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Horner | 36 |
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. 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)
Horner 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.
from Horn 1 with the agent suffix -er, an occupational name for someone who made or sold small articles made of hom, a metonymic occupational name for someone who played a musical instmment made from the hom of an animal, or a topographic name for someone who lived at a ‘hom’ of land.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
habitational name from Homer in Diptford, Devon, which is named from Old English horn ‘hom of land’ + ora ‘hill spur’, ‘ridge’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Someone who works or deals in (animal) horn or horns.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, different form of Horn.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
variant of Horn 4.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Leonard Hornerb. 1785GBMerchant, geologist and educational reformer
- Johann Friedrich Hornerb. 1831CHSwiss ophthalmologist (1831-1886)
- Harry Hornerb. 1910ATAustrian-American film art director (1910-1994)
- Florence Sally Hornerb. 1937USKidnapped American child
- Jack Hornerb. 1946USAmerican paleontologist (born 1946 )
- James Hornerb. 1953USAmerican film composer and conductor (1953-2015)
- Mike Hornerb. 1955USAmerican pornographic actor
- Bob Hornerb. 1957USAmerican baseball player (1957-2026)
- Geri Halliwellb. 1972GBnot in their usual nameEnglish singer and actress
- Craig Hornerb. 1983AUAustralian actor and musician
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)
Attested in 29 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 24K | #1,500 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 23K | #1,393 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 22K | #1,565 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 Horner mean, and where does it come from?
- from place names Horn/ Hornau or from 'horn-blower, horn-worker' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Horner?
- A machine transcription gives /hɒɹnɚ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Horner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 124 thousand people named Horner in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled horner.
- How common is the name Horner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 23,881 people named Horner in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Horner compared with other names?
- In the United Kingdom, Horner is the 797th most common surname of 1,272,424 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hornerThe 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, “Horner” — the 797th most common surname in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.