Hochman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: descriptive nickname for a tall man, from hoch ‘tall’ (see Hoch) -I- Mann ‘man’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/otʃman/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Hochman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country. Hochman is also written הוכמן in Hebrew.
- CZCzechia1 in 22K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 71K
- SKSlovakia1 in 97K
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 Hochman itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 273 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
1,083 named הוכמן, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Hochman in other scripts: Hebrew
(measured from records)Locally spelled הוכמן in IL Israel, PL Poland.
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.
How to pronounce Hochman
- Spanish:/otʃman/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)descriptive nickname for a tall man, from hoch ‘tall’ (see Hoch) -I- Mann ‘man’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Hochman is found
(measured from records)Hochman 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #862 | 1,083as הוכמן | 1 in 8K | 1.1K | הוכמן | 55 |
| US United States | — | 1,021 | 1 in 326K | 1.7K | Hochman | 273 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 491 | 1 in 22K | 491 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 255 | 1 in 150K | 129 | הוכמן | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Hochman | 56 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 56 | 1 in 97K | 56 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 48 | 1 in 71K | 48 | Hochman | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Hochman | 1 |
1,083 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)- Larry Hochmanb. 1953USAmerican composer
- Gilad Hochmanb. 1982ILIsraeli composer
- Will Hochmanb. 1992USAmerican actor
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hochman mean, and where does it come from?
- descriptive nickname for a tall man, from hoch ‘tall’ (see Hoch) -I- Mann ‘man’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hochman?
- In Spanish /otʃman/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hochman?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named הוכמן, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Czechia, Poland and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Hochman most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hochman is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 22 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hochman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,021 people named Hochman in 2010, about 1 in 326 thousand residents.
- How common is Hochman compared with other names?
- In Israel, Hochman is the 862nd most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hochmanThe 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, “Hochman” — ranked 1295th in Israel (CBS Israel, 2017). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.