Hodge
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the pet-name Hodge, a medieval form of Roger; or from a nickname meaning ‘hog’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hodge is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 5K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 5.2K
- IEIreland≈1 in 5.4K
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
- 486 (measured from records)
- 1 in 156 (inferred from the name graph)
52,920 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
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)
from the pet-name Hodge, a medieval form of Roger; or from a nickname meaning ‘hog’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hodge 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 | #544 | 52,920 | 1 in 6.3K | 53K | Hodge | 486 |
| GB United Kingdom | #547 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | listed | Hodge | 230 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 50K | listed | Hodge | 23 |
| AU Australia | #470 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Hodge | 183 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Hodge | 8 |
| IE Ireland | #541 | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Hodge | 36 |
| NZ New Zealand | #419 | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Hodge | 90 |
| GY Guyana | — | 363 | 1 in 2.1K | 363 | — | 6 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 345 | 1 in 156 | 372 | — | 14 |
52,920 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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; The page provides a list of the 50 most common surnames in Saint Kitts and Nevis, published by Apellidos del mundo.; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Hodge is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Lieutenant General John R. Hodge (1893–1963), commander of the U.S. Army XXIV Corps in Korea in 1945–48.
as a nameKorea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
In English, l.from the medieval personal name Hodge, a short form of Roger. (Eor the change of initial, compare Hick.) 2. nickname from Middle English hodge ‘hog’, which occurs as a dialect variant of hogge, for example in Cheshire place names.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A surname originating as a patronymic.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, pet-form of Roger; first attested Hogge 1208 FFL
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Medieval nickname for Roger
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
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)
- Percy Hodgeb. 1890GBBritish athlete (1890–1967)
- John R. Hodgeb. 1893USUnited States Army general (1893-1963)
- William Vallance Douglas Hodgeb. 1903GBBritish mathematician (1903–1975)
- Patricia Hodgeb. 1946GBBritish actress
- Douglas Hodgeb. 1960GBBritish actor
- Steve Hodgeb. 1962GBEnglish footballer (born 1962)
- John Hodgeb. 1964GBScottish screenwriter and dramatist
- Kate Hodgeb. 1966USAmerican actress and film producer
- Edwin Hodgeb. 1985USAmerican actor (born 1985)
- Aldis Hodgeb. 1986USAmerican 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 53K | #643 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 51K | #655 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 51K | #610 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 363 | #300 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 345 | #25 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Hodge mean, and where does it come from?
- from the pet-name Hodge, a medieval form of Roger; or from a nickname meaning ‘hog’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Hodge have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 53 thousand people named Hodge, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hodge.
- Where is Hodge most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hodge is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 156 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hodge?
- In the United States, the national register counted 52,920 people named Hodge in 2010, about 1 in 6.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Hodge compared with other names?
- In the United States, Hodge is the 544th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hodgeThe 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, “Hodge” — the 544th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.