Horsman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from OE hors horse (cf
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈhɔɹsmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Horsman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 26K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 231K
- DKDenmark1 in 391K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
1,442 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
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 OE hors horse (cf. Ross 4) + mann man. It is unlikely to have been a nickname for a skilled rider, for in the Mid¬ dle Ages the maintenance and use of a horse was far beyond the means of the mass of common people. Var.: Horseman. Hort see Hardt, Hart Horter see Heard Vars.: Hoskyn, Hosken, Hosking (all Devon). Hoskin(g)s, Huskisson. Pairs.; Hosky(n)s; Huskinson, Hoskis(s)on,
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Where in the world
(measured from records)Horsman 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 | 1,442 | 1 in 231K | 1.5K | Horsman | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 663 | 1 in 26K | 663 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 25 | 1 in 2M | 25 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 15 | 1 in 391K | 15 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 8 | 1 in 683K | 8 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 7 | 1 in 1.7M | 7 | — | — |
1,442 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 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)Horsman is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
occupational name for a stable worker, from Old English hors ‘horse’ + mann ‘man’. It is unlikely to have been a nickname for a skilled rider, for in the Middle Ages the maintenance and use of a horse was far beyond the means of the mass of common people.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Finnish, genitive singular of horsma
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, horseman (mounted soldier)
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)- Nicholas Horsmanb. 1654Horsman, Nicholas (fl. 1654–1689), Church of England clergyman
- Edward Horsmanb. 1807GBEnglish politician (1807-1876)
- John Whitmore Horsmanb. 1888CACanadian politician (1888-1976)
- Fred Horsmanb. 1889GBEnglish footballer (1889-1959)
- Ernest Alan Horsmanb. 1918GBNew Zealand professor of English
- John Horsmanb. 1925NZNew Zealand teacher, university teacher and radio officier (1925-1993)
- Jim Horsmanb. 1935CACanadian politician
- Henk Horsmanb. 1937NLDutch events founder (1937-2021)
- Vince Horsmanb. 1967USCanadian baseball player
- Stephen HorsmanCACanadian politician
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,497 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #18,928 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,008 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 663 | #2,773 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 25 | #73,340 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 25 | #71,513 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 15 | #29,175 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #61,573 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 7 | #86,014 |
| 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
- 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
- Where does the name Horsman come from?
- from OE hors horse (cf. Ross 4) + mann man. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Horsman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɔɹsmən/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Horsman mean?
- Recorded meaning: from OE hors horse (cf.
- In which country does Horsman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Horsman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled horsman.
- Where is Horsman most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Horsman is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 26 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Horsman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,442 people named Horsman in 2010, about 1 in 231 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Horsman?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/horsmanThe 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, “Horsman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.