Hoes
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: topographic name for someone living between the spurs of two or more hills, from Old English hos, plural of hoh ‘spur of a hill’ (literally ‘heel’)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈhuːs/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Hoes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 23K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 25K
- USUnited States1 in 694K
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 Hoes 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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 named Hos, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hos in EG Egypt.
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)topographic name for someone living between the spurs of two or more hills, from Old English hos, plural of hoh ‘spur of a hill’ (literally ‘heel’).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Hoes is read
(measured from records)Hoes is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English69%
topographic name for someone living between the spurs of two or more hills, from Old English hos, plural of hoh ‘spur of a hill’ (literally ‘heel’).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- Dutch9.2%
cover
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German6.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hoes in German.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hoes 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Hos | 26 |
| NL Netherlands | 757 | 1 in 23K | 757 | Hoes | 53 |
| US United States | 479 | 1 in 694K | 479 | Hoes | 149 |
| BE Belgium | 464 | 1 in 25K | 464 | Hoes | 28 |
| DE Germany | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 476K | — | Hoes | 48 |
| CZ Czechia | 172as Hos | 1 in 62K | 172 | — | — |
| OM Oman | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Hoes | 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)Hoes is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, alternative form of whos (“whose”, genitive)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, oblique/nominative plural of hoe
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, h-prothesized form of oes
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)- Hannah Van Burenb. 1783USnot in their usual nameWife of Martin Van Buren
- Johnny Hoesb. 1917NLDutch television presenter, record producer, guitarist, composer and presenter (1917–2011)
- Guus Hoesb. 1945NLDutch actor (1945-1986)
- Hans Hoesb. 1949NLDutch actor (born 1949)
- Onno Hoesb. 1961NLDutch politician
- Isa Hoesb. 1967NLDutch actress
- Jennifer Hoesb. 1973NLjewelry designer (born 1973)
- Abbey Hoesb. 1994NLDutch actress
- Yorrit Hoesb. 2004BEsnooker player
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 757 | #2,374 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 479 | #44,808 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 465 | #43,708 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 464 | #3,312 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 445 | #3,520 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 437 | #51,462 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #221,688 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
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 Hoes mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone living between the spurs of two or more hills, from Old English hos, plural of hoh ‘spur of a hill’ (literally ‘heel’). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hoes?
- In Dutch /ˈhuːs/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Hoes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Hos in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hoes most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hoes is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though Egypt holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hoes?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 757 people named Hoes in 2007, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hoesThe 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, “Hoes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.