Horu
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/hoɾu/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Horu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia≈1 in 6.1M
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 8.6Mfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hörü in TR Türkiye, BE Belgium, NL Netherlands.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Horu 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Hörü | 14 |
| IN India | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 6.1M | 15 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 8.6M | — | Hörü | 2 |
| BE Belgium | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 8.8M | — | Hörü | 2 |
| SY Syria | — | — | — | Horu | 2 |
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: 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)Horu is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Czech, accusative singular of hora
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of ほる
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, dirt; filth; foulness
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tft, to paddle
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Horu?
- It depends on the language: in Turkish /hoɾu/; in Indonesian /horu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people named Horu?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.5 thousand people named Horu in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hörü. After it come India, Netherlands and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Horu?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4,500 people in Türkiye have Horu as their first given name, about 1 in 19 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Horu?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/horuThe 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, “Horu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.