Hemingway
surname · Latin script
Meaning: probably ‘person from Hemingway’, an unidentified place in Yorkshire; see Hemming
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhɛmɪŋˌweɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hemingway is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 20Kas Henning
- SGSingapore≈1 in 25K
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 Hemingway 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 367 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
16,557 named Henning, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled เฮนนิ่ง in NO Norway.
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)
probably ‘person from Hemingway’, an unidentified place in Yorkshire; see Hemming
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hemingway 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 16,557as Henning | 1 in 20K | 17K | Hemingway | 367 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 27K | listed | Hemingway | 165 |
| BR Brazil | 1,895as Henning | 1 in 112K | 1.9K | — | 2 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 1 | Hemingway | 8 |
| FI Finland | 652as Hemming | 1 in 8.5K | 1.7K | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 300as Henning | 1 in 18K | 19K | เฮนนิ่ง | 6 |
| SG Singapore | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Hemingway | 7 |
| DK Denmark | 244as Henning | 1 in 24K | 13K | — | — |
16,557 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling henning. 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Hemingway 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, name from an unidentified minor place in W Yorks., prob¬ ably in the parish of Halifax, to judge by the distribution of early occurrences of the surname. The placename is from the personal name Hemming + ME loey way, path (OE weg). Var.: Hemmingway. Hemmann see Hans helian). Hemmett see Emmett Vars.: Helliar, Hel(l)yer, Hilliar, Hillier, Hillyar, Hil(l)yer.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
apparently a habitational name from a lost or unidentified minor place in West Yorkshire, probably in the parish of Halifax, to judge by the distribution of early occurrences of the surname.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Margaux and Mariel, US actresses
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Ernest, US author (Nobel 1954);
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Croatian, američki književnik; reporter u španjolskom građanskom ratu, borac protiv fašizma; zaokupljen temom o prkosnom junaštvu čovjeka suočenog sa silama jačim od njega; počinio samoubojstvo; Nobelova nagrada 1954 ( Kome zvono zvoni , Starac i more )
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Grace Hall Hemingwayb. 1872USAmerican painter
- Ernest Hemingwayb. 1899USAmerican author and journalist (1899–1961)
- Leicester Hemingwayb. 1915USAmerican writer (1915-1982)
- Jack Hemingwayb. 1923USCanadian-American fly fisherman, conservationist and writer
- Patrick Hemingwayb. 1928USAmerican author, safari guide, son to Ernest Hemingway (1928–2025)
- Gloria Hemingwayb. 1931USAmerican physician (1931-2001)
- Margaux Hemingwayb. 1954USAmerican fashion model and actress
- Mariel Hemingwayb. 1961USAmerican actress and author
- Toby Hemingwayb. 1983GBBritish actor
- Dree Hemingwayb. 1987USAmerican model and actress
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 20 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6K | #5,794 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.9K | #5,703 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.6K | #5,699 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Hemingway mean, and where does it come from?
- probably ‘person from Hemingway’, an unidentified place in Yorkshire; see Hemming Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Hemingway?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɛmɪŋˌweɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hemingway have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Henning, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hemingway?
- In the United States, the national register counted 16,557 people named Henning in 2010, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hemingwayThe 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, “Hemingway”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.