Hom

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Alternative form of haoma (“sacred plant”)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈhɑm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Hom is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 68K(measured from records)
  • CACanada≈1 in 74K
  • KHCambodia≈1 in 9.9K

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 Hom 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)

4,863 people, 2010

Sources
327 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 9.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Cambodia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hoem in NO Norway, KH Cambodia, CO Colombia.

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 form of haoma (“sacred plant”).

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hom 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 Hom is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4,8631 in 68K5KHom327
NO Norway2,146as Hoem1 in 2.5K2.1KHoem24
KH Cambodia≈1,700 est.≈1 in 9.9K—Hoem8
CO Colombia≈540 est.≈1 in 91K1Hoem2
CA Canada≈510 est.≈1 in 74K—Hom40
JM Jamaica≈82 est.≈1 in 34K—Hom1

4,863 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the co-datosgov-candidates 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)

Hom is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Hō̜m, Hōm, Hôm

  • Spanish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Colombia, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Hôm, Hơm, Hóm, Hỏm

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Netherlands

    Also written Hôm, Hóm

  • Bangla surname21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Also written Hume, হোম, Hame, Hooma, Holme

50 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)

Hom 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 fro, nominative singular of home (“man”)

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

  • In Catalan, one, people, someone (an unspecified individual: indefinite personal pronoun)

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

  • In zun, First person singular possessive (medial position)

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

  • In Afrikaans, third-person singular object pronoun

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

  • ISO 639-3 language code for Homa.

    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)

  • Georg Homb. 1838DEGerman painter (1838-1911)
  • Tom Homb. 1927USAmerican politician in the state of California
  • Jennifer HomUSPh.D. University of Pennsylvania 2011

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)

FormalDear Hom,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 27 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Hom
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020005K#6,262
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020104.9K#6,906
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204.7K#6,897
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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 Hom mean, and where does it come from?
Alternative form of haoma (“sacred plant”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Hom?
A machine transcription gives /ˈhɑm/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Hom have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.9 thousand people named Hom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hom.
How common is the name Hom?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,863 people named Hom in 2010, about 1 in 68 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, “Hom”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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