Ho-On
surname · Latin script
Ho-On is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Uncertain; used initially as a general term of abuse.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 22K
- USUnited States1 in 561K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 246 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hoon in US United States, MY Malaysia, SG Singapore and 2 more.
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)
Uncertain; used initially as a general term of abuse. It first appeared in print in Capricornia (1938) by Australian writer Xavier Herbert (1901–1984); in a 1941 letter Herbert stated he had heard the term in his youth.
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ho-On 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Hoon | 3 |
| MY Malaysia | #875 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Hoon | 58 |
| US United States | — | 593 | 1 in 561K | 1.1K | Hoon | 246 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 48K | 9 | Hoon | 46 |
| SG Singapore | #654 | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Hoon | 91 |
| SE Sweden | — | 98 | 1 in 104K | 98 | — | 3 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Ho-On is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Esperanto, accusative singular of ho
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ho-On mean, and where does it come from?
- Uncertain; used initially as a general term of abuse. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- In which country does Ho-On have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.3 thousand people named Ho-On in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hoon.
- How common is the name Ho-On?
- In the United States, the national register counted 593 people named Ho-On in 2020, about 1 in 561 thousand residents.
- How common is Ho-On compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Ho-On is the 654th most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ho-onThe 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, “Ho-On” — the 654th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.