Hornblower
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hornblower is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Someone or something that blows a horn.
- USUnited States1 in 2.9M(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 668K
- CACanada≈1 in 699K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 668K (inferred from the name graph)
≈190 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Someone or something that blows a horn.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hornblower 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Hornblower | 1 |
| US United States | 115 | 1 in 2.9M | 115 | Hornblower | 108 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 668K | — | Hornblower | 52 |
| CA Canada | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 699K | — | Hornblower | 34 |
| MA Morocco | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Hornblower | 4 |
| AU Australia | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Hornblower | 21 |
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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joseph Hornblowerb. 1696British engineer
- Josiah Hornblowerb. 1729USAmerican politician (1729-1809)
- Jabez Carter Hornblowerb. 1744GBEnglish pioneer of steam power
- Jonathan Hornblowerb. 1753GBSteam power pioneer
- Joseph Coerten Hornblowerb. 1777USAmerican judge
- Jane Elizabeth Roscoe Hornblowerb. 1797English poet (1797-1853)
- Lewis Hornblowerb. 1823British architect
- William Butler Hornblowerb. 1851USAmerican judge (1851–1914)
- Ruth Hornblowerb. 1887USAmerican educator
- Simon Hornblowerb. 1949GBEnglish historian of ancient Greece (born 1949)
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 6 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 115 | #144,141 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 103 | #147,095 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 102 | #154,755 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Hornblower mean, and where does it come from?
- Someone or something that blows a horn. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Hornblower have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 190 people named Hornblower in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hornblower.
- How common is the name Hornblower?
- In the United States, the national register counted 115 people named Hornblower in 2010, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hornblowerThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Hornblower”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.