Hogg
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Likely from Old English hoga ‘careful, reliable’; found in Border names from c.1250
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hogg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 7.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 4.5Kas Hock
- SGSingapore≈1 in 5Kas Hock
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 Hogg 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 387 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.4K (inferred from the name graph)
16,884 named Hawk, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hock in MY Malaysia, DE Germany, SG Singapore and Haug in NO Norway.
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)
Likely from Old English hoga ‘careful, reliable’; found in Border names from c.1250. A derivation from a legendary Norwegian or from pig/sheep/colt is less likely.
Sources 1
- Scottish Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hogg 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 | — | 16,884as Hawk | 1 in 20K | 17K | Hogg | 387 |
| NO Norway | #527 | 9,718as Haug | 1 in 563 | 9.7K | Haug | 58 |
| DE Germany | #671 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | listed | Hock | 139 |
| GB United Kingdom | #536 | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | listed | Hogg | 245 |
| MY Malaysia | #134 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Hock | 103 |
| SG Singapore | #174 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Hock | 85 |
16,884 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling hawk. 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 scottish-surnames-ross-1994 register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Hogg 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.
James Hogg, poet and novelist (1770–1835), born in the Ettrick Valley, traced his surname to a legendary Norwegian named Haug. A more verifiable source is Old English hoga, ‘careful’, ‘reliable’, found in Border names from around 1250, though with the prefix de- or del-, de Hoga, suggesting a location rather than a description. Association with the pig, sheep or colt is least likely.
as a nameScottish Surnames
metonymic occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle English hogg ‘yearling sheep’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
metonymic occupational name for a swineherd, from Middle English hog(ge) ‘swine’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
topographic name, a variant of Heck 2, found chiefly in Bavaria.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A young sheep of either gender, until it cuts its first two teeth; a hogget.
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)
- James Hoggb. 1770GBBritish poet and novelist (1770–1835)
- Jim Hoggb. 1851US20th governor of Texas (1891-1895)
- Ima Hoggb. 1882USAmerican philanthropist and arts patron (1882–1975)
- Helen Sawyer Hoggb. 1905USastronomer (1905-1993)
- Douglas Hoggb. 1945GBBritish politician and barrister
- Joanna Hoggb. 1960GBBritish film director and screenwriter
- Edward Hoggb. 1979GBBritish actor
- Andrew Hoggb. 1985MTMaltese footballer
- Jonathan Hoggb. 1988GBEnglish association football player (born 1988)
- David Hoggb. 2000USAmerican politician and activist (born 2000)
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 28 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7.3K | #4,471 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.1K | #4,945 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.7K | #5,074 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 36 | #31,849 |
| GB United Kingdom | Scottish Surnames (Ross, 1994) | — | — | — |
| 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)
- 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
- Where does the name Hogg come from?
- Likely from Old English hoga ‘careful, reliable’; found in Border names from c.1250. A derivation from a legendary Norwegian or from pig/sheep/colt is less likely. Recorded by Scottish Surnames.
- What does the name Hogg mean?
- Recorded meaning: Likely from Old English hoga ‘careful, reliable’; found in Border names from c.1250.
- In which country does Hogg have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Hawk, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hogg?
- In the United States, the national register counted 16,884 people named Hawk in 2010, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Hogg compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Hogg is the 134th most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hoggThe 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, “Hogg” — the 134th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.