Hosang

surname · Latin script

Meaning: of uncertain origin; possibly a nickname for a pious person from Middle High German hoch sane ‘chanting’, ‘songs of praise’

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/həsæŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Hosang is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 603K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 42K
  • JMJamaica≈1 in 47K

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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈630 people, est.

Sources
164 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

of uncertain origin; possibly a nickname for a pious person from Middle High German hoch sane ‘chanting’, ‘songs of praise’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hosang 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.

Where Hosang is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany≈630 est.≈1 in 127K—Hosang70
US United States5521 in 603K629Hosang164
MA Morocco≈280 est.≈1 in 125K—Hosang1
CH Switzerland2021 in 42K202Hosang17
BR Brazil1471 in 1.4M147—1
JM Jamaica≈59 est.≈1 in 47K—Hosang7
IE Ireland≈9 est.≈1 in 545K—Hosang1

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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hosang is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Portugal, Venezuela

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Ho-Sang

  • Korean given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Korea, United States

    Also written 호상, Ho-Sang

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ho-Sang

  • Chinese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

    Also written Ho-Sang

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

175018001850190019502000Johann Peter Hosang, b. 1788Ernst Hosang, b. 1857Albert Adriaan Hendrik Hosang, b. 1867Adriaan Hosang, b. 1907Péronne Hosang, b. 1909Maik Hosang, b. 1961

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)

FormalDear Mr Hosang,
InformalHi Hosang,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Hosang
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020629#37,959
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010552#39,773
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000489#41,859
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024202#6,226
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—147#47,165
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Hosang mean, and where does it come from?
of uncertain origin; possibly a nickname for a pious person from Middle High German hoch sane ‘chanting’, ‘songs of praise’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Hosang?
A machine transcription gives /həsæŋ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Hosang have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 631 people named Hosang in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hosang.
Where is Hosang most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hosang is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 42 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Hosang?
In the United States, the national register counted 552 people named Hosang in 2010, about 1 in 603 thousand residents.

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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, “Hosang”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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