Hulme
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈhjuːm/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Hulme is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country. Hulme is also written ฮวม in Thai.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 29K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 36K
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 Hulme 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.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 283 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Hulme in other scripts: Thai
(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.
How to pronounce Hulme
- English:/ˈhjuːm/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Hulme is found
(measured from records)Hulme 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Hulme | 201 |
| US United States | — | 2,068 | 1 in 161K | 2.1K | Hulme | 283 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Hulme | 27 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Hulme | 112 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Hulme | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | #555 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Hulme | 44 |
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. 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)Hulme 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 English, A northern suburb of Warrington, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6091).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Thomas, English critic
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)- Thomas Ernest Hulmeb. 1883GBEnglish Imagist poet and critic (1883–1917)
- Denny Hulmeb. 1936NZNew Zealand racing driver (1936–1992)
- Keri Hulmeb. 1947NZNew Zealand writer
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Hulme?
- In English /ˈhjuːm/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hulme?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.9 thousand people named Hulme in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hulme. After it come United States, South Africa, Australia and Ghana; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Hulme?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,068 people named Hulme in 2010, about 1 in 161 thousand residents.
- How common is Hulme compared with other names?
- In New Zealand, Hulme is the 555th most common surname of 87,225 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hulme?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hulmeThe 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, “Hulme” — the 555th most common surname in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.