Hochhauser
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name for someone who lived in a tall house or a house built in a high place, from Middle High German hohe ‘high’ (German hoch) + Middle High German hiis ‘house’ (German Haus) + the agent s
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhɑkˌhaʊzɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hochhauser is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 842K(measured from records)
- FIFinland≈1 in 132K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 290K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 132K (inferred from the name graph)
395 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
topographic name for someone who lived in a tall house or a house built in a high place, from Middle High German hohe ‘high’ (German hoch) + Middle High German hiis ‘house’ (German Haus) + the agent suffix -er.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hochhauser 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 | 395 | 1 in 842K | 442 | Hochhauser | 146 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 838K | — | Hochhauser | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 993K | — | Hochhauser | 29 |
| FI Finland | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Hochhauser | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 29 | 1 in 290K | 29 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 28 | 1 in 419K | 28 | Hochhauser | 5 |
| HN Honduras | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 464K | — | Hochhauser | 2 |
| PA Panama | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 610K | — | Hochhauser | 1 |
395 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anna-Maria Hochhauserb. 1956ATAustrian politician
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 13 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 442 | #51,004 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 395 | #52,482 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 306 | #61,376 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 29 | #28,044 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 28 | #38,431 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Hochhauser mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived in a tall house or a house built in a high place, from Middle High German hohe ‘high’ (German hoch) + Middle High German hiis ‘house’ (German Haus) + the agent s… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hochhauser?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɑkˌhaʊzɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hochhauser have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 395 people named Hochhauser, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hochhauser.
- How common is the name Hochhauser?
- In the United States, the national register counted 395 people named Hochhauser in 2010, about 1 in 842 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hochhauserThe 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, “Hochhauser”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.