Houk
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Houck 1, with the definite article, de
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhaʊk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Houk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 60K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 133K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 19K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 271 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
5,560 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Singapore, 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)
variant of Houck 1, with the definite article, de.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Houk 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 | 5,560 | 1 in 60K | 5.6K | Houk | 271 |
| EG Egypt | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Houk | 3 |
| IT Italy | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Houk | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Houk | 19 |
| CA Canada | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Houk | 32 |
| SG Singapore | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Houk | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Houk | 1 |
| IS Iceland | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Houk | 2 |
5,560 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. 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)
Houk is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In stq, corner
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)
- George Washington Houkb. 1825USAmerican politician
- Leonidas C. Houkb. 1836USAmerican congressman for Tennessee (1836-1891)
- John C. Houkb. 1860USAmerican politician (1860–1923)
- Ralph Houkb. 1919USAmerican baseball player and coach (1919–2010)
- Nancy Houkb. 1940USastronomer, author, research scientist
- Kendall Houkb. 1943USAmerican chemist (1943-)
- Václav Houkb. 1946CZbotanist
- Holly Houkb. 1989USAmerican actress
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 13 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.6K | #6,157 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.5K | #5,763 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.3K | #6,193 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Houk mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Houck 1, with the definite article, de. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Houk?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhaʊk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Houk have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.6 thousand people named Houk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled houk.
- How common is the name Houk?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,560 people named Houk in 2010, about 1 in 60 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/houkThe 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, “Houk”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.