Hosse
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Occupational surname: from maker of trousers/beinkleiders; bearer count 296
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Hosse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 120Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 186K
- BEBelgium1 in 326K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 121K (inferred from the name graph)
≈690 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)Occupational surname: from maker of trousers/beinkleiders; bearer count 296.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Hosse is found
(measured from records)Hosse 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Hosse | 56 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 444K | — | Hosse | 4 |
| US United States | 117 | 1 in 2.8M | 117 | Hosse | 87 |
| BE Belgium | 36 | 1 in 326K | 36 | Hosse | 2 |
| FR France | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | 3 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 9 | 1 in 934K | 9 | — | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Hosse 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 German, Personenname zu mhd. hose 'Hose, Beinkleid'; wohl Übername nach auffälliger Hose/Beinkleid. Bearer count: 296.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In enm, alternative form of whos (“whose”, genitive)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, singular present subjunctive of hossen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pdc, pants, trousers
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ulryk Hozjuszb. 1455DEnot in their usual namePolish noble
- Nils Hosseb. 1910SESwedish illustrator
- Karl Heinz Hosseb. 1942DEGerman artist, writer and painter
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hosse mean, and where does it come from?
- Occupational surname: from maker of trousers/beinkleiders; bearer count 296. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hosse?
- Mondonomo estimates about 693 people named Hosse in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hosse. After it come Tanzania, United States, Belgium and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Hosse?
- In the United States, the national register counted 117 people named Hosse in 2010, about 1 in 2.8 million 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/hosseThe 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, “Hosse”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.