Houshang
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/haʊʃæŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Houshang is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 152K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 345K
- USUnited States1 in 779K
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)
- Sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 152K (inferred from the name graph)
427 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Houshang 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 | 427 | 1 in 779K | 426 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 67 | 1 in 152K | 67 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 17 | 1 in 345K | 17 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| IR Iran | — | — | — | Houshang | 3 |
427 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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)
- Houshang Kavoosib. 1922IRIranian film director
- Houshang Beheshtib. 1923IRIranian actor (1923–1991)
- Hushang Harirchiyanb. 1932IRnot in their usual nameIranian actor (1932-2024)
- Houshang Golshirib. 1937IRIranian writer
- Hooshang Dibaianb. 1937IRnot in their usual nameIranian actor
- Houshang Mashianb. 1938IRIranian Chess Champion 1958.
- Hushang Qovanloob. 1947IRnot in their usual nameIranian actor
- Hooshang Amirahmadib. 1947IRnot in their usual nameIranian American Academic/politician
- Houshang Seddighb. 1947IRCommander of Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force
- Hooshang Mirzaeeb. 1971IRnot in their usual namedirector and filmmaker
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 426 | #23,091 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 67 | #11,252 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 63 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 63 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 62 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 61 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 61 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 61 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 60 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 60 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 60 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 59 | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Houshang?
- A machine transcription gives /haʊʃæŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Houshang a male or female name?
- Houshang is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Houshang have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 427 people named Houshang, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Houshang most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Houshang is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 152 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Houshang?
- In the United States, the national register counted 427 people named Houshang in 2020, about 1 in 779 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Houshang?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/houshangThe 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, “Houshang”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.