Hulme

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A northern suburb of Warrington, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6091)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/hjuːm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Hulme is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 30K
  • 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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,500 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
283 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

United Kingdom, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

HulmeLatin(measured from records)
ฮวมThai(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)

A northern suburb of Warrington, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6091).

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(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.

Where Hulme is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom—≈4,500 est.≈1 in 14K—Hulme201
US United States—2,0681 in 161K2.1KHulme283
AU Australia—≈850 est.≈1 in 30K—Hulme112
ZA South Africa—≈790 est.≈1 in 71K—Hulme27
GH Ghana—≈510 est.≈1 in 57K—Hulme3
NZ New Zealand#555≈140 est.≈1 in 36K—Hulme44

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hulme is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United Kingdom, United States, Canada

    Also written Hulmé

  • Danish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, United States

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Hulmé

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, United States, Russia, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Хьюм

  • Finnish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Hülme

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Hulme 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 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)

1850190019502000Thomas Ernest Hulme, b. 1883Aaron Hulme, b. 1886Kathryn Hulme, b. 1900Joe Hulme, b. 1904Denny Hulme, b. 1936John Hulme, b. 1945Keri Hulme, b. 1947Andrew Hulme, b. 1963Lachy Hulme, b. 1971Lexy Hulme, b. 1984

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)

FormalDear Hulme,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Hulme
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.1K#14,447
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202K#14,145
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002K#13,830
US United Stateswru 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
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Hulme mean, and where does it come from?
A northern suburb of Warrington, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6091). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Hulme?
A machine transcription gives /hjuːm/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Hulme have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.5 thousand people named Hulme in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hulme.
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.

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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 2026-10-10.

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