Hoehn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a short form of a Germanic compound name formed with hun ‘bear cub’ or hun ‘giant’ as the first element
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hoehn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 95K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 11Kas Höhn
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 29K
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 Hoehn 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 279 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Höhn in DE Germany, CH Switzerland.
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 a short form of a Germanic compound name formed with hun ‘bear cub’ or hun ‘giant’ as the first element.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hoehn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Hoehn | 2 |
| DE Germany | #489 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Höhn | 107 |
| US United States | — | 3,499 | 1 in 95K | 3.6K | Hoehn | 279 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Hoehn | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 586as Höhn | 1 in 14K | 586 | Höhn | 24 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Hoehn | 3 |
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 2000; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Hoehn is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
habitational name from any of several places in Hesse and Bavaria called Hdhn.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from an aphetic form of the personal name Johann(es) (see John).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Alfred Hoehnb. 1887DEGerman editor, pianist and music educator (1887–1945)
- Elmer Louis Hoehnb. 1915USAmerican politician (1915 – 2017)
- Marcel Hoehnb. 1947CHSwiss film producer
- Marcel Hoehnb. 1950FRFrench politician
- Simon Hoehnb. 1996CHSwiss male curler
- Alex Hoehnb. 1997USAmerican cyclist
- Richard S Hoehnb. 2000researcher
- Mathias HoehnDEresearcher
- Ted HoehnAmerican tennis player
- Kyle L. HoehnUSresearcher
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 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.6K | #8,390 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.5K | #9,301 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #9,063 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 14 | #47,506 |
| 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 Hoehn mean, and where does it come from?
- from a short form of a Germanic compound name formed with hun ‘bear cub’ or hun ‘giant’ as the first element. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Hoehn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Hoehn in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hoehn.
- How common is the name Hoehn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,499 people named Hoehn in 2010, about 1 in 95 thousand residents.
- How common is Hoehn compared with other names?
- In Germany, Hoehn is the 489th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hoehnThe 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, “Hoehn” — the 489th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.