Hody

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ɔdi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Hody is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 20K(measured from records)
  • SOSomalia≈1 in 67K
  • FRFrance≈1 in 176K

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.

Belgium (measured from records)

576 people, 2008

Sources
73 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hody 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.

Where Hody is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BE Belgium5761 in 20K576Hody24
FR France≈390 est.≈1 in 176K57Hody2
SO Somalia≈180 est.≈1 in 67K—Hody1
US United States≈140 est.≈1 in 2.4MlistedHody73
IT Italy≈64 est.≈1 in 973K—Hody1
CH Switzerland151 in 560K15—3
DK Denmark81 in 734K8——

576 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hody is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Spain

    Also written Hödy, Hódy

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Colombia, Belgium

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Hődý

  • Hungarian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary

    Also written Hódy

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Hody is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In cdo, a round of pork, a cut near the the pelican

    as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect

  • In Czech, nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumental plural of hod

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Slovak, nominative/accusative plural of hod

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Polish, synonym of ani

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1400160018002000William Hody, b. 1441Edward Hody, b. 1698Georges Hody, b. 1892

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)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Hody, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Hody
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008576#2,589
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—529#2,854
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196164—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199157—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195156—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193149—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197142—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192141—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198140—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194134—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)191126—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)190120—

Reference works 3

  • 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

How do you pronounce Hody?
A machine transcription gives /ɔdi/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Hody have the most bearers?
In Belgium, the national register counted about 576 people named Hody, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hody.
Where is Hody most common?
Hody is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 20 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Hody?
In Belgium, the national register counted 576 people named Hody in 2008, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.

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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, “Hody”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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