Hohol
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative spelling of khokhol
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hohoʊɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hohol is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 14Kas Гоголь(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 75Kas Гоголь
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 126Kas Гоголь
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 Hohol 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- 1 in 102K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 named Гоголь, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Гоголь in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more.
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)
Alternative spelling of khokhol.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hohol 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Гоголь | 39 |
| RU Russia | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Гоголь | 122 |
| PL Poland | 374 | 1 in 102K | 199 | Hohol | 14 |
| US United States | 176 | 1 in 1.9M | 191 | Hohol | 13 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 126K | 105 | Гоголь | 27 |
| BY Belarus | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Гоголь | 14 |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Hohol 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.
In Russian, var of Gogol.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Czech, goldeneye
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)
- Jonah Gogolb. 1505not in their usual namePolish bishop
- Vasyl Panasovych Gogol-Yanovskyb. 1777UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian noble and writer
- Nikolai Gogolb. 1809UAnot in their usual nameRussian writer of Ukrainian origin (1809–1852)
- Anna Grigorevna Gogolb. 1901UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian Soviet party leader
- Bert Hoholb. 1922CACanadian politician (1922-2017)
- Mateusz Hoholb. 1987PLPolish cognitive scientist (1987-)
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 199 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 199 | #16,268 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 191 | #100,867 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 179 | #94,676 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 176 | #102,197 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 175 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 175 | #18,572 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- What does the name Hohol mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative spelling of khokhol. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Hohol?
- A machine transcription gives /hohoʊɫ/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Hohol have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Гоголь in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hohol most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hohol is densest in Poland — about 1 in 102 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hohol?
- In Poland, the national register counted 374 people named Hohol in 2026, about 1 in 102 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/hoholThe 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, “Hohol”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.