Horten
surname · Latin script
Meaning: gerund of horten
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/ˈhɔɐ̯tn̩/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Horten is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 9.6K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 110K
- DKDenmark1 in 534K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.6K (inferred from the name graph)
570 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)gerund of horten
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Horten 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 570 | 1 in 9.6K | 570 | — | 3 |
| US United States | 374 | 1 in 889K | 374 | Horten | 16 |
| BE Belgium | 107 | 1 in 110K | 107 | — | 4 |
| AR Argentina | 11 | 1 in 4.1M | 11 | Horten | 14 |
| DK Denmark | 11 | 1 in 534K | 11 | — | — |
570 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)- Sofie Hortenb. 1848DKDanish journalist
- Max Hortenb. 1874DEGerman librarian and historian of religion (1874-1945)
- Helmut Hortenb. 1909DEGerman businessman (1909-1987)
- Walter Hortenb. 1913DEGerman pilot and designer (1913-1998)
- Reimar Hortenb. 1915DEGerman pilot and designer (1915–1994)
- Heidi Hortenb. 1941ATAustrian billionaire and philanthropist (1941–2022)
- Brett Hortenb. 1971AUAustralian rower
- Ulrik Hortenscreenwriter
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Horten mean, and where does it come from?
- gerund of horten Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Horten?
- In the etymology graph, Hoard is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Horten?
- In German /ˈhɔɐ̯tn̩/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Horten have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 570 people named Horten, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Horten most common?
- Horten is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Horten?
- In Norway, the national register counted 570 people named Horten, about 1 in 9.6 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hortenThe 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, “Horten”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.