Holing

surname · Latin script

Meaning: present participle and gerund of hole

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

Holing is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 108K(inferred from the name graph)
  • NONorway1 in 171K
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 543K

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.

Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)

≈950 people, est.

Sources
52 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 108K (inferred from the name graph)

Congo - Kinshasa, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Höling 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)

present participle and gerund of hole

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Holing 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 Holing is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CD Congo - Kinshasa≈950 est.≈1 in 108K—Holing1
ZA South Africa≈100 est.≈1 in 543K—Holing7
DE Germany≈62 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Höling28
US United States≈45 est.≈1 in 7.5M—Holing52
BR Brazil411 in 5.2M41——
NO Norway321 in 171K32——
CH Switzerland51 in 1.7M5—1

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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Holing is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Chinese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Taiwan

    Also written Ho-Ling

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Höling

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Höling

20 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Holing
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—41#120,411
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—32#33,664

Reference works 1

  • 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 Holing mean, and where does it come from?
present participle and gerund of hole Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Holing have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 946 people named Holing in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled holing.
How common is the name Holing?
In Brazil, the national register counted 41 people named Holing, about 1 in 5.2 million 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, “Holing”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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