Hochman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: descriptive nickname for a tall man, from hoch ‘tall’ (see Hoch) -I- Mann ‘man’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhɑkmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hochman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 326K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael1 in 8Kas הוכמן
- CZCzechia1 in 22K
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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 273 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
1,083 named הוכמן, 2017
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled הוכמן in IL Israel, PL Poland, RO Romania and 1 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)
descriptive nickname for a tall man, from hoch ‘tall’ (see Hoch) -I- Mann ‘man’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(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 | — | — |
| RO Romania | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | הוכמן | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 255 | 1 in 150K | 129 | הוכמן | 2 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | הוכמן | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 48 | 1 in 71K | 48 | Hochman | 5 |
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). 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)
- Israel J. Hochmanb. 1872USAmerican klezmer bandleader
- Sandra Hochmanb. 1938USAmerican writer
- Ayala Hochmanb. 1945ILProfessor for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Judith S Hochmanb. 1951USresearcher
- Larry Hochmanb. 1953USAmerican composer
- Juliet Thompsonb. 1967USnot in their usual nameAmerican rower
- Gilad Hochmanb. 1982ILIsraeli composer
- Guy Hochmanb. 1988ILIsraeli screenwriter
- Will Hochmanb. 1992USAmerican actor
- Michael HochmanILIsraeli mathematician
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 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,742 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,391 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,499 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 491 | #3,088 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 490 | #2,895 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 129 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 129 | #24,353 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 126 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 126 | #24,402 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 48 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 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?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɑkmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hochman have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named הוכמן, more than in any other country we hold.
- 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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Query this name via API
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” — the 862nd most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.