Hauger
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads so named, from the indefinite plural form of Old Norse haugr ‘hill’, ‘mound’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/ˈhaʊɡɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hauger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 257K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 4.2K
- IEIreland≈1 in 33K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 217 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
1,300 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads so named, from the indefinite plural form of Old Norse haugr ‘hill’, ‘mound’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hauger 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 1,300 | 1 in 4.2K | 1.3K | Hauger | 24 |
| US United States | 1,292 | 1 in 257K | 1.5K | Hauger | 217 |
| DE Germany | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Hauger | 62 |
| FR France | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 303K | 30 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 328K | listed | Hauger | 18 |
| IE Ireland | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Hauger | 1 |
| SG Singapore | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Hauger | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Hauger | 18 |
1,300 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the bbc-pronouncing-dictionary-british-names register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Hauger 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.
patronymic from the personal name Haug, a German form of Hugh.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Norwegian Bokmål, indefinite plural of haug
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Patronym zu Haug(g), schwäbischer Variante von Hugo; zeigt die -er-Erweiterung. Konkurrenz: zu ahd. houg 'Hügel' oder Rufname Hucger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Patro-/metronymischer Familienname mit Suffix -er; regionale Bildung aus einem Rufnamen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Patronymischer Familienname; im Atlas als häufige Ballung genannt.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)- Ernest Haugerb. 1873FRFrench missionary, catholic priest and titular bishop (1873-1948)
- Art Haugerb. 1893USAmerican baseball player
- Kristian Haugerb. 1905NONorwegian musician (1905-1977)
- Finn Jonb. 1939NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian illusionist
- Torill Thorstad Haugerb. 1943NONorwegian writer and painter (1943–2014)
- Georg Haugerb. 1965ATAustrian university teacher
- Andreas Haugerb. 1979NONorwegian footballer
- Glenn Haugerb. 1979NONorwegian musician
- Henning Haugerb. 1985NONorwegian footballer
- Dennis Haugerb. 2003NONorwegian racing driver
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Hauger mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads so named, from the indefinite plural form of Old Norse haugr ‘hill’, ‘mound’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hauger?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhaʊɡɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hauger have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Hauger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hauger.
- Where is Hauger most common?
- Hauger is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hauger?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,300 people named Hauger, about 1 in 4.2 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Hauger?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/haugerThe 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, “Hauger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.