Hove
loc · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name from the plural of hof ‘manor farm’, ‘court’, ‘garden’, or a habitational name from places named with this word, for example in the Belgian provinces of Antwerp and Hainault
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hove is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Zimbabwe than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 163K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 13Kas Hoeve
- ZWZimbabwe≈1 in 2.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hove itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Zimbabwe (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 239 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Zimbabwe, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hoeve in US United States, NL Netherlands and Høve in NO Norway, DK Denmark.
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)
topographic name from the plural of hof ‘manor farm’, ‘court’, ‘garden’, or a habitational name from places named with this word, for example in the Belgian provinces of Antwerp and Hainault.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hove 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZW Zimbabwe | — | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | listed | — | 24 |
| US United States | — | 2,041 | 1 in 163K | 2K | Hoeve | 239 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,946 | 1 in 2.8K | 1.9K | Høve | 30 |
| NL Netherlands | #868 | 1,311as Hoeve | 1 in 13K | 1.3K | Hoeve | 76 |
| DK Denmark | — | 787 | 1 in 7.5K | 787 | Høve | 10 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Hove | 15 |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Hove 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.
habitation^ name from any of numerous farmsteads named Hove, from the dative singular of Old Norse hof ‘pagan temple’, ‘place of worship’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Herkunfts-/Wohnstättenname; im Raum Münster, sonst verstreut. Belegt die Variante mit -v- statt -f-.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In ofs, dative singular of hof
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dum, inflection of hof:
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)
- Anders Hoveb. 1885NONorwegian political prisoner (b. 1885)
- Ove Hoveb. 1914DKDanish architect (1914-1993)
- Leiv M. Hoveb. 1948NONorwegian professor
- Harald Hoveb. 1949NONorwegian politician
- Anne-Birthe Hoveb. 1951GLGreenlandic graphic artist (1951–2012)
- Anders Hoveb. 1956GLDanish actor and director
- Chenjerai Hoveb. 1956ZWZimbabwean poet and writer (1956–2015)
- Guy Hoveb. 1957BEBelgian politician
- Runar Hoveb. 1995NONorwegian footballer
- Johan Hoveb. 2000NOassociation football player
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 23 sources across 12 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Hove mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name from the plural of hof ‘manor farm’, ‘court’, ‘garden’, or a habitational name from places named with this word, for example in the Belgian provinces of Antwerp and Hainault. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Hove have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.2 thousand people named Hove in Zimbabwe, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hove?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,041 people named Hove in 2010, about 1 in 163 thousand residents.
- How common is Hove compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Hove is the 868th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hove?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hoveThe 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, “Hove” — the 868th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.