Hudon
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of Houde 1
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈhudən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hudon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 410K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 1.3M
- BEBelgium1 in 1.7M
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)
- Record sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 410K (inferred from the name graph)
812 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
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
(measured from records)from a pet form of Houde 1. Ij«l;lj:l A Hudon, also called Beaulieu, from the Anjou region of France, is documented in Quebec city in 1666.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hudon 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 | 812 | 1 in 410K | 926 | Hudon | 8 |
| PL Poland | 30 | 1 in 1.3M | 18 | Hudon | 10 |
| BE Belgium | 7 | 1 in 1.7M | 7 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | 3 | 1 in 1.7M | 3 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Hudon | 3 |
812 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Hudon 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 French, Dérivé de Hude, variante de Houde.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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)- Anahi Morales Hudonb. 1901CACanadian university teacher
- Simone Hudon-Beaulacb. 1905CACanadian painter and printmaker (1905–1984)
- Normand Hudonb. 1929CACanadian caricaturist (1929–1997)
- Jean-Guy Hudonb. 1941CACanadian politician
- Renée Hudonb. 1942CACanadian academic
- Jacques Hudonb. 1946CACanadian painter (born 1946)
- Isabelle Hudonb. 1967CACanadian businesswoman
- Jocelyn Hudonb. 1994CACanadian actress
- Charles Hudonb. 1994CACanadian ice hockey player
- Carol HudonCApsychologist and university professor
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 926 | #27,561 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 906 | #25,591 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 812 | #29,171 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 18 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 18 | #95,250 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 12 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 12 | #120,474 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 7 | #85,781 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 3 | #12,037 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Hudon come from?
- from a pet form of Houde 1. Ij«l;lj:l A Hudon, also called Beaulieu, from the Anjou region of France, is documented in Quebec city in 1666. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hudon?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhudən/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Hudon mean?
- Recorded meaning: from a pet form of Houde 1.
- In which country does Hudon have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 812 people named Hudon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hudon.
- Where is Hudon most common?
- Hudon is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 410 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hudon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 812 people named Hudon in 2010, about 1 in 410 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hudonThe 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, “Hudon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.