Hondo

loc · Latin script

Meaning: An unincorporated community in the Municipal District of Lesser Slave River No

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

Hondo is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States
  • CACanada
  • GBUnited Kingdom

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
111 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

An unincorporated community in the Municipal District of Lesser Slave River No. 124, Alberta, Canada.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hondo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Hondo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—170Hondo111
GB United Kingdom——Hondo28
CA Canada——Hondo4
RU Russia——Hondo2
BR Brazil—135——
PL Poland—63—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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)

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

  • Japanese name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan

    Also written Hondō

  • Spanish name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Dominican Republic, Spain, Paraguay

    Also written Hońdo

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Hońdo

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Hońdo

40 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)

Hondo 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.

  • One who is prepared for war

    as a nameThe book of African names

  • The agnates are splendid

    as a nameThe book of African names

  • In Shona, Zezuru/Shona (Zimbabwe): 'war'.

    as a nameAfrican Names

  • war.

    as a nameAfrican Names

  • In Swahili, alternative form of hondohondo (“hornbill”)

    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)

190019201940196019802000Yasuji Hondo, b. 1918Danilo Hondo, b. 1974Santiago Hondo, b. 1974Douglas Hondo, b. 1979Daniel Hondo, b. 1982Kaede Hondo, b. 1996Ammi Hondo, b. 1997

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 18 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Hondo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—135#50,347
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000110#139,757
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#262,848
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#264,789
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Hondo come from?
An unincorporated community in the Municipal District of Lesser Slave River No. 124, Alberta, Canada. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What does the name Hondo mean?
Recorded meaning: An unincorporated community in the Municipal District of Lesser Slave River No.
In which country does Hondo have the most bearers?
Hondo is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled hondo.

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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, “Hondo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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