Hoover
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Middle Dutch huve, a measure of land area (compare German Huber) -i- -er, suffix of agent nouns; a status name for a landowner or a prosperous small farmer
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hoover is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CNChina≈1 in 5.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 5.8K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 6.6K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 489 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈270,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Iceland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
from Middle Dutch huve, a measure of land area (compare German Huber) -i- -er, suffix of agent nouns; a status name for a landowner or a prosperous small farmer.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hoover 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Hoover | 8 |
| US United States | #572 | 57,497 | 1 in 5.8K | 57K | Hoover | 489 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | Hoover | 91 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Hoover | 11 |
| IT Italy | #978 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Hoover | 13 |
| SG Singapore | #498 | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Hoover | 9 |
| IE Ireland | #662 | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Hoover | 9 |
| IS Iceland | #825 | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Hoover | 5 |
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. 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)
Hoover 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 English, An American surname from German (shared by several famous people including J. Edgar Hoover and Herbert Hoover).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, variant of Huber
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In English, Herbert, 31st US president
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, English form of Huber
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Croatian, američki kriminalist, pravnik, 1924—1972. na čelu FBI kojeg je izgradio u moćnu organizaciju
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Herbert Clark Hooverb. 1874USpresident of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874–1964)
- Lou Hooverb. 1874USFirst Lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933
- John Edgar Hooverb. 1895USAmerican law enforcement administrator (1895–1972)
- Herbert Hoover, Jr.b. 1903USAmerican politician (1903–1969)
- Bob Hooverb. 1922USAmerican test pilot and aerobatics legend (1922-2016)
- Erna Schneider Hooverb. 1926USAmerican mathematician
- Paul Hooverb. 1976USAmerican baseball player and coach
- Colleen Hooverb. 1979USAmerican author
- Mikaela Hooverb. 1984USAmerican actress
- J. J. Hooverb. 1987USbaseball player from the United States
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 36 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 57K | #580 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 57K | #580 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 56K | #532 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Hoover mean, and where does it come from?
- from Middle Dutch huve, a measure of land area (compare German Huber) -i- -er, suffix of agent nouns; a status name for a landowner or a prosperous small farmer. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Hoover have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 275 thousand people named Hoover in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hoover.
- How common is the name Hoover?
- In the United States, the national register counted 57,497 people named Hoover in 2010, about 1 in 5.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Hoover compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Hoover is the 498th most common surname of 78,292 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hooverThe 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, “Hoover” — the 498th most common surname in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.