Hoyt
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ME hoit ‘a long stick’, a nickname for a tall, thin man; first attested John le Hoit 1327 SREss, Stephen Hoyte 1642 PrD
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hɔjt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hoyt is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- CACanada
- GBUnited Kingdom
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)
ME hoit ‘a long stick’, a nickname for a tall, thin man; first attested John le Hoit 1327 SREss, Stephen Hoyte 1642 PrD
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Hoyt, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hoyt is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, nickname for a tall, thin person, from Middle English hoit ‘long stick’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A topographical surname for someone who lived high, or on a hill.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Dewey Lamarr, baseball player;
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- John Wesley Hoytb. 1831USAmerican businessman and politician (1831-1912)
- Arthur Hoytb. 1874USAmerican film actor (1874–1953)
- William Hoytb. 1875USAmerican pole vaulter (1875–1954)
- Harry O. Hoytb. 1885USAmerican screenwriter, film director (1885-1961)
- Homer Hoytb. 1895USAmerican economist (1895-1984)
- Waite Hoytb. 1899USAmerican baseball player (1899–1984)
- John Hoytb. 1905USAmerican film, stage, and television actor (1905-1991)
- Clegg Hoytb. 1910USAmerican actor (1910-1967)
- LaMarr Hoytb. 1955USAmerican baseball player (1955–2021)
- Lance Hoytb. 1977USAmerican professional wrestler
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 18 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 21K | #1,701 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 21K | #1,591 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 21K | #1,712 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 16 | #4,164 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #190,082 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 2 | #23,867 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Hoyt mean, and where does it come from?
- ME hoit ‘a long stick’, a nickname for a tall, thin man; first attested John le Hoit 1327 SREss, Stephen Hoyte 1642 PrD Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Hoyt?
- A machine transcription gives /hɔjt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hoyt have the most bearers?
- Hoyt is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hoytThe 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
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hoyt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.