Hoja

loc · Latin script

Meaning: honor

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Hoja is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 135K(measured from records)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 182K
  • CZCzechia1 in 1.8M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈440 people, est.

Sources
60 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 135K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ho-Ja 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)

honor

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hoja 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.

Where Hoja is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany≈440 est.≈1 in 182K—Ho-Ja60
PL Poland2831 in 135K147—1
IN India161 in 83M16—2
CZ Czechia61 in 1.8M6——
ES Spain61 in 8.3M6—1
BE Belgium41 in 2.9M4—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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; MVČR — living population register 2017; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hoja is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Hojä

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Hoja 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.

  • In Spanish, leaf (usually green and flat organ that is the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swahili, dispute, argument

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Guarani, cover

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, sala Atlantijas okeānā, viena no Orkneju salām, to dienvidrietumu daļā, Lielbritānijas (Skotijas) teritorija

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, pilsēta Vācijā ("Hoya"), Lejassaksijas federālajā zemē, 3800 iedzīvotāju (2013. g.)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

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 10 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Hoja
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026147—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—147#21,326
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026136—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—136#23,310
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—16#88,870
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—6#110,718
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—6#154,812
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—6#20,739
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20084#109,542

Reference works 2

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 Hoja mean, and where does it come from?
honor Recorded by African Muslim Names.
In which country does Hoja have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 441 people named Hoja in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Ho-Ja.
Where is Hoja most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hoja is densest in Poland — about 1 in 135 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Hoja?
In Poland, the national register counted 283 people named Hoja in 2026, about 1 in 135 thousand residents.

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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, “Hoja”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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