Hette
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hette is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 162K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 210K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 127 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 162K (inferred from the name graph)
≈420 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hette 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 162K | 62 | Hette | 127 |
| BR Brazil | 29 | 1 in 7.3M | 29 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 26 | 1 in 210K | 26 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 95M | — | Hette | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Hette is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, alternative form of hete (“heat”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, past indicative of heta
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a hood or cowl
as a wordkaikki.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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hette fan Albadab. 1515politician
- Hette fan Aebingab. 1550NLpolitician
- Hette Hettes Hettemab. 1868NLDutch cartographer (1868–1962)
- Hette Wijtze Hettemab. 1893NL(1893-1967)
- Hette Abmab. 1917NLDutch politician (1917-1992)
- Hette Borriasb. 1953NLDutch rower
- Wytse Hette Keulenb. 1968NLDutch classical philologist (1968-)
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 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 73 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 73 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 63 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 62 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 58 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 50 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 48 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 46 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 45 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 40 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 29 | #152,390 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 28 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- How do you pronounce Hette?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛt/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Hette have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 419 people named Hette in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hette.
- How common is the name Hette?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 29 people named Hette, about 1 in 7.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Hette?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hetteThe 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, “Hette”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.