Hota
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/oʊtə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hota is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 718K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 3.1M
- CZCzechia1 in 214K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- 1 in 214K (inferred from the name graph)
1,846 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
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)
Agni (५); Siva (M); Hanuman (N); Kala (N);
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hota 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 1,846 | 1 in 718K | 1.8K | Hota | 118 |
| JP Japan | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 397K | listed | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 848K | — | Hota | 11 |
| BR Brazil | 143 | 1 in 1.5M | 143 | — | — |
| US United States | 107 | 1 in 3.1M | 196 | Hota | 96 |
| RO Romania | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 382K | — | Hota | 5 |
| CZ Czechia | 50 | 1 in 214K | 50 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 244K | — | Hota | 10 |
1,846 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; the japanese-surnames-hadamitzky-1998 register. 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)
Hota is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In men, plu. hotanza, stranger, euest, visitor; v., to visit, to come on busi- ness. Jya hotoma hinda nyamu-mo ma. I hota numui ma, He isthe guest of a man
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In lua, to be foolish, be stupid, be ignorant, be dull, be senseless, be silly, be simple.
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
In Slovak, used to direct horses to the right; gee
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ki, to be able, to be capable
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, A one-year-old vendace.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, to threaten
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)
- Satakadi Hotab. 1929INwriter from Odisha, India
- Hisako Hotab. 1930JPbadminton player
- Damodar Hotab. 1935INClassical Odissi & Hindustani exponent
- Geeta Hotab. 1936INIndian writer
- Sabita Rani Hotab. 1964INIndian linguist (language philosophy)
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 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.8K | #3,335 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 196 | #98,894 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 159 | #16,564 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 143 | #48,212 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 107 | #152,628 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 103 | #147,095 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 50 | #29,234 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 49 | #10,674 |
| JP Japan | Japanese, Chinese, Korean Surnames (Hadamitzky, 1998) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Hota?
- A machine transcription gives /oʊtə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Hota have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Hota, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hota.
- Where is Hota most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hota is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 214 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hota?
- In India, the national register counted 1,846 people named Hota, about 1 in 718 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/hotaThe 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, “Hota”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.