Hord
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhɔɹd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hord is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Lesotho it is the 47th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Lancs, Yorks, and. see Heard .
- USUnited States1 in 97K(measured from records)
- LSLesotho≈1 in 8.6K
- MRMauritania≈1 in 9.4K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 292 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.6K (inferred from the name graph)
4,397 people
Highest-authority source
Lesotho, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Lancs, Yorks, and. see Heard .
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hord 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 4,397 | 1 in 302K | 4.4K | — | 4 |
| US United States | — | 3,416 | 1 in 97K | 3.5K | Hord | 292 |
| MR Mauritania | #58 | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | — | Hord | 1 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 275K | — | Hord | 2 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 238K | — | Hord | 5 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Hord | 32 |
| LS Lesotho | #47 | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Hord | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Hord | 2 |
4,397 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)
Hord is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ang, A hoard, especially of valuable items, hidden for preservation.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, to carry (repeatedly, regularly, and/or continuously)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, A hoard or cache of hidden valuables.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, h-prothesized form of ord
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In osx, a treasure, hiding-place
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, gerbe, fagot, faix
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- Donal Hordb. 1902USAmerican artist (1902–1966)
- Brian Hordb. 1934GBBritish politician (1934-2015)
- Roy Hord, Jr.b. 1934USAmerican football player (1934-2002)
- Derrick Hordb. 1960USAmerican basketball player (born 1960)
- Elliott Hordb. 1991USAmerican soccer player
- Kaitlyn Hordb. 2000USAmerican volleyball player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 4.4K | #1,722 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.5K | #8,674 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.4K | #9,515 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.9K | #10,598 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Hord mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Lancs, Yorks, and. see Heard . Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Hord?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɔɹd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hord have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Hord, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hord?
- In India, the national register counted 4,397 people named Hord, about 1 in 302 thousand residents.
- How common is Hord compared with other names?
- In Lesotho, Hord is the 47th most common surname of 5,753 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hordThe 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, “Hord” — the 47th most common surname in Lesotho. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.