Hosey

surname · Latin script

Meaning: different form of Hussey

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

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

Hosey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 89K(measured from records)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 97K
  • IEIreland≈1 in 44K

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.

United States (measured from records)

3,735 people, 2010

Sources
304 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)

Ireland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

different form of Hussey.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hosey 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 Hosey is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—3,7351 in 89K3.7KHosey304
GB United Kingdom—≈680 est.≈1 in 97K—Hosey86
GH Ghana—≈580 est.≈1 in 50K—Hosey3
CA Canada—≈390 est.≈1 in 96K—Hosey32
AU Australia—≈270 est.≈1 in 93K—Hosey31
IE Ireland—≈120 est.≈1 in 44K—Hosey37
LR Liberia#923≈89 est.≈1 in 57K—Hosey1
GY Guyana—111 in 68K11—1

3,735 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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)

Hosey is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt, Palestine

    Also written Hóśêÿ

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Hösey

43 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Hosey is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • variant of Hussey.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Irish, This name is of dual origin: either O'Hosey, a variant of O'Hussey, or de Hosey, a Norman family settled in Meath. See Hussey

    as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland

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)

1850190019502000William J. Hosey, b. 1854Lonnie Hosey, b. 1946Dwayne Hosey, b. 1967

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 Hosey,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Hosey
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.7K#8,775
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020003.7K#8,289
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.5K#8,909
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 2025202511#614
US United Stateswru 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

What does the name Hosey mean, and where does it come from?
different form of Hussey. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Hosey?
A machine transcription gives /ˈhoʊzi/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Hosey have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Hosey, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hosey.
How common is the name Hosey?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,735 people named Hosey in 2010, about 1 in 89 thousand residents.
How common is Hosey compared with other names?
In Liberia, Hosey is the 923rd most common surname of 10,200 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Hosey” — the 923rd most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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