Hote

surname · Latin script

Meaning: To command; to enjoin

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

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

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 417K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BEBelgium1 in 651K
  • BRBrazil1 in 2M

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.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈160 people, est.

Sources
110 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 417K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

To command; to enjoin.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hote 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 Hote is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈160 est.≈1 in 417K23Hote110
BR Brazil1041 in 2M104——
IN India551 in 24M55——
US United States≈51 est.≈1 in 6.6Mlisted—2
BE Belgium181 in 651K18Hote8

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Africa, India, Philippines

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Hôte

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Hôte

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Hôte

  • Bangla surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, United States

    Also written Hate, হতে, হাতে, Hãté, হঁতেঁ

35 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)

Hote is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In apb, to paddle, to row (late use); a paddle, an oar, an incantation for protection at sea, an incantation to a sea spirit

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In aia, a paddle; in names of trees, people, etc.; in old songs; and names of paddling strokes

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In alu, a paddle; to paddle, row

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In yol, alternative form of hoat

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In tll, boil

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

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)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Hote
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—104#61,505
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—55#41,792
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194136—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193136—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196133—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)190126—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198124—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199123—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192121—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195120—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197119—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)191116—

Reference works 1

  • 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 Hote mean, and where does it come from?
To command; to enjoin. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Hote have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 163 people named Hote in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hote.
How common is the name Hote?
In Brazil, the national register counted 104 people named Hote, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.

What do you want to know about Hote?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hote

The 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, “Hote”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Hote parses inside a full name →