Hovi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: court (of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or other dignitary)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hoʊvi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hovi is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Finland.
- FIFinland
- NONorway
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
court (of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or other dignitary)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Hovi 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 izh, manor, mansion
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)
- Mikko Hovib. 1879FIFinnish artist (1879–1962)
- Torger Hovib. 1905NONorwegian politician (1905–1980)
- Väinö Hovib. 1913FIFinnish physicist
- Kalervo Hovib. 1942FIFinnish historian (1942-2021)
- Seppo Hovib. 1946FIFinnish pianist, conductor and television presenter
- Inger Beate Hovib. 1966NONorwegian researcher
- Tom Henning Hovib. 1972NONorwegian footballer
- Sasu Hovib. 1982FIice hockey player
- Venla Hovib. 1987FIFinnish ice hockey player and coach
- Kimmo Hovib. 1994FIFinnish association footballer
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 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 3.5K | #548 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 1.5K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 320 | #4,730 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 39 | #15,363 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #127,600 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #265,002 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Hovi mean, and where does it come from?
- court (of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or other dignitary) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Hovi?
- A machine transcription gives /hoʊvi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hovi have the most bearers?
- Hovi is most frequently recorded in Finland.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hoviThe 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, “Hovi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.