Hoves
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person singular simple present indicative of hove
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hoves is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Zimbabwe than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 13Kas Hoeve(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 163Kas Hove
- ARArgentina1 in 2.3M
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 Hoves 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 2.3M (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,200 named Hove, est.
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hoeve in US United States, NL Netherlands, Høve in NO Norway, DK Denmark and Hove in NZ New Zealand.
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)
third-person singular simple present indicative of hove
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hoves 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 | — | 2,041as Hove | 1 in 163K | 2K | Hoeve | 239 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,946as Hove | 1 in 2.8K | 1.9K | Høve | 30 |
| NL Netherlands | #868 | 1,311as Hoeve | 1 in 13K | 1.3K | Hoeve | 76 |
| DK Denmark | — | 787as Hove | 1 in 7.5K | 787 | Høve | 10 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Hove | 15 |
| AR Argentina | — | 20 | 1 in 2.3M | 20 | — | — |
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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 20 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hoves mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person singular simple present indicative of hove Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Hoves have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.2 thousand people named Hove in Zimbabwe, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hoves most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hoves is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 2.3 million people — even though Zimbabwe holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hoves?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 20 people named Hoves, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
- How common is Hoves compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Hoves is the 868th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hovesThe 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, “Hoves” — the 868th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.