Newhouse

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Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Newhouse 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, dweller at the new house; first attested Ralph de Niwehus 1176 P (Yorkshire)

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

• In English, topographic name for someone who lived in a ‘new house’, from Middle English newe hous, or a habitational name from any of various minor places named with these elements, for example in Cheshire and West Yorkshire. Newsham in Lincolnshire was often Neuhouse in the medieval period, the modem form in -ham representing an alternative from Old English dative plural -um.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In English, Translation of Scandinavian Nyhus, German and Ashkenazic Jewish Neuhaus (topographic or habitational names), or Hungarian Ujhazi, a habitational name for someone from any of various places named with uj ‘new’ hdz ‘house’.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In English, lived in a ‘new house’ (cf. New and House), or habitation name from some minor place named with these elements. See also Newsome. Cogns.: Ger.: Neuhaus. Jewish (Ashkenazic): Neuhaus(er).

  as a name·A dictionary of surnames

• In English, A placename

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr.b. 1895USAmerican broadcasting businessman, magazine and newspaper publisher (1895-1979)
• Jean Shileyb. 1911USnot in their usual nameAmerican athletics competitor
• Richard H. Newhouse, Jr.b. 1924USAmerican politician
• S. I. Newhouseb. 1927USAmerican publisher, media owner, art collector, philanthropist (1927–2017)
• Donald Newhouseb. 1929USAmerican businessman
• Fred Newhouseb. 1948USAmerican athletics competitor (1948–2025)
• Robert Newhouseb. 1950USplayer of American football (1950-2014)
• Dan Newhouseb. 1955USAmerican politician
• Charlotte Newhouseb. 1986USAmerican actress and writer
• Marshall Newhouseb. 1988USplayer of American football

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Newhouse mean, and where does it come from?

Person who lives in a new house, or from a place called Newhouse; also a translation of equivalent surnames in other languages. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].

What are other forms of the name Newhouse?

In the etymology graph, Neuhaus and Maisonneuve are forms of the same name in other languages.

In which country does Newhouse have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 6.5 thousand people named Newhouse, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled newhouse.

How common is the name Newhouse?

In the United States, the national register counted 6,471 people named Newhouse in 2010, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.