Hosking
surname · Latin script
Meaning: different form of Hoskin
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhɑskɪŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hosking is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 205K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 249K
- SESweden1 in 928K
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)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 205K (inferred from the name graph)
1,624 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
United States
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)
different form of Hoskin.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hosking 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 | 1,624 | 1 in 205K | 1.6K | Hosking | 5 |
| ES Spain | 24 | 1 in 2.1M | 24 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 22 | 1 in 249K | 22 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 11 | 1 in 928K | 11 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 10 | 1 in 4.5M | 10 | — | — |
1,624 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
- Henry Alfred Hoskingb. 1908CACanadian politician (1908–1957)
- Eric Hoskingb. 1909GBBritish photographer (1909–1991)
- Geoffrey Hoskingb. 1942GBBritish historian
- Peter Hoskingb. 1947USactor
- Craig Hoskingb. 1958USAmerican actor
- Mike Hoskingb. 1965NZNew Zealand broadcaster
- Rita Hoskingb. 1969USAmerican musician
- Sophie Hoskingb. 1986GBBritish rower
- Chloe Hoskingb. 1990AUAustralian racing cyclist
- David Hoskingb. 2000GBBritish rower
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)
Attested in 18 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,385 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,925 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,224 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 24 | #75,521 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 24 | #73,510 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 22 | #40,614 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 11 | #37,664 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 10 | — |
| 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
- What does the name Hosking mean, and where does it come from?
- different form of Hoskin. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Hosking?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɑskɪŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hosking have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Hosking, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hosking.
- Where is Hosking most common?
- Hosking is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 205 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hosking?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,624 people named Hosking in 2010, about 1 in 205 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/hoskingThe 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, “Hosking”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.