Horen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Horn
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈhɔɹən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Horen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 864K(measured from records)
- BZBelize≈1 in 24K
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 53K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 152 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
385 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belize, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Horn.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Horen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 385 | 1 in 864K | 427 | Horen | 152 |
| IN India | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | 2 | Horen | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Horen | 27 |
| FR France | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 417K | 27 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 78 | 1 in 2.7M | 78 | — | — |
| IL Israel | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 343K | — | Horen | 9 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 257K | — | Horen | 1 |
| BZ Belize | #656 | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Horen | 1 |
385 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Horen 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.
habitational name from Hori, a peninsula on Lake Constance.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
variant of Horne
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Dutch, to hear
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
In enm, To develop grey, white, or hoary hair.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, definite masculine singular of hore
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)- Khoren Ib. 1842TRnot in their usual nameArmenian Patriarch of Constantinople
- Khoren Palyanb. 1935AMnot in their usual nameArmenian priest, church musician and academic
- Khoren Oganesianb. 1955AMnot in their usual nameArmenian footballer (born 1955)
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 427 | #46,839 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 385 | #53,667 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 382 | #57,536 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 78 | #76,222 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 37 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 12 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Horen mean, and where does it come from?
- 3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Horn. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Horen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɔɹən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Horen have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 385 people named Horen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled horen.
- How common is the name Horen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 385 people named Horen in 2010, about 1 in 864 thousand residents.
- How common is Horen compared with other names?
- In Belize, Horen is the 656th most common surname of 11,408 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/horenThe 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, “Horen” — the 656th most common surname in Belize. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.