Hoer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: One who hoes
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hoɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hoer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 5.3Kas Hor(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 146Kas Hör
- USUnited States1 in 657Kas Hor
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 Hoer 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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 171 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 296K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,200 named Hor, 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 Hor in US United States, MY Malaysia, IN India and 4 more and Hör in DE Germany.
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)
One who hoes.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hoer 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Hor | 69 |
| IN India | 1,546as Hor | 1 in 858K | 1.5K | Hor | 14 |
| DE Germany | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 146K | listed | Hör | 47 |
| US United States | 506as Hor | 1 in 657K | 575 | Hor | 171 |
| FR France | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 182K | 26 | — | 2 |
| SG Singapore | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Hor | 59 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 296K | — | Hoer | 1 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Hor | 21 |
| AU Australia | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Hor | 80 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 107K | 5 | Hor | 10 |
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; the dfa-band-5 register; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Hoer 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, indefinite plural of ho
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, whore, prostitute
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Afrikaans, whore
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Luxembourgish, hair
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)
- Theo Hoerb. 1941DEGerman politician
- Astrid Hoerb. 1950DEGerman female wheelchair curler
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 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 199 | #86,992 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 198 | #98,131 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 196 | #93,513 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Hoer mean, and where does it come from?
- One who hoes. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Hoer?
- A machine transcription gives /hoɐ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hoer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.2 thousand people named Hor in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hoer?
- In India, the national register counted 1,546 people named Hor, about 1 in 858 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Hoer?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hoerThe 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, “Hoer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.