Huet
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: 2. French: from a pet form of the Old French personal name Hue, Hughe (see Hugh)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Huet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 3.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 14K
- RERéunion≈1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 305 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
2. French: from a pet form of the Old French personal name Hue, Hughe (see Hugh). [H31313ES A Huet from the Anjou region of France is recorded in Trois Rivieres, Quebec, in 1666, with the secondary surname Dulude.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Huet is read(measured from records)
Huet is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French84%
Même origine que Huard.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- English7.1%
2. French: from a pet form of the Old French personal name Hue, Hughe (see Hugh). [H31313ES A Huet from the Anjou region of France is recorded in Trois Rivieres, Quebec, in 1666, with the secondary surname Dulude.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
variant spelling of Hewitt
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
A surname originating as a patronymic.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish5.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Huet in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Huet 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #123 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 2.9K | Huet | 305 |
| CN China | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Huet | 3 |
| BE Belgium | #975 | 830 | 1 in 14K | 831 | Huet | 46 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 218K | — | Huet | 9 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 536K | — | Huet | 6 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Huet | 3 |
| RE Réunion | #237 | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Huet | 22 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family 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)
Huet is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Luxembourgish, third-person singular present indicative of hunn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, definite singular of hue (Etymology 2)
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)
- Pierre Daniel Huetb. 1630FRFrench churchman and scholar (1630–1721)
- Jean-Baptiste, I Huetb. 1745FRFrench painter and textile designer (1745-1811)
- Paul Huetb. 1803FRFrench painter (1803-1869)
- Edmond Huetb. 1827FRdirector of the Paris city council's works department at the end of the 19th century
- Maurice Huetb. 1918FRfencer (1918–1991)
- Henri Huetb. 1927VNFrench photographer (1927–1971)
- Henri-Jacques Huetb. 1930FRFrench actor (1930–2009)
- Gérard Huetb. 1947FRFrench computer scientist
- Cristobal Huetb. 1975FRFrench ice hockey player
- Axel Huetb. 1991FRFrench actor
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 30 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 3.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 3.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 3.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 3.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 3.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 2.9K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 2.9K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 2.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 2.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 1.4K | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 831 | #1,682 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Huet mean, and where does it come from?
- 2. French: from a pet form of the Old French personal name Hue, Hughe (see Hugh). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Huet have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Huet in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled huet.
- How common is the name Huet?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 830 people named Huet in 2008, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Huet compared with other names?
- In France, Huet is the 123rd most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/huetThe 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, “Huet” — the 123rd most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.