Humes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: perhaps a variant of Holme
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhjumz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Humes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 55K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 65K
- GHGhana≈1 in 21K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 349 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
≈39,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
perhaps a variant of Holme.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Humes 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Humes | 2 |
| US United States | 6,093 | 1 in 55K | 6.1K | Humes | 349 |
| GH Ghana | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Humes | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Humes | 99 |
| EG Egypt | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Humes | 2 |
| IE Ireland | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Humes | 4 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Humes | 8 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 1 | 1 in 54K | 1 | — | — |
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; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
Humes 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 French, second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of humer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, second-person singular present active subjunctive of humō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, second-person singular present subjunctive of humar
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)
- Thomas William Humesb. 1815USAmerican minister and educator (1815–1892)
- Fred Humesb. 1896USAmerican actor (1896-1971)
- Helen Humesb. 1913USAmerican jazz and blues singer (1913–1981)
- James C. Humesb. 1934USAmerican speechwriter
- Jimmy Humesb. 1942GBEnglish footballer (born 1942)
- Mary-Margaret Humesb. 1954USAmerican actress (born 1954)
- Tony Humesb. 1966GBprofessional footballer (born 1966)
- Rochelle Humesb. 1989GBEnglish singer and presenter (born 1989)
- Immy Humesb. 2000USdocumentary filmmaker
- Edward HumesUSAmerican 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)
Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.1K | #5,689 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.9K | #5,703 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.8K | #5,476 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 1 | #181 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Humes mean, and where does it come from?
- perhaps a variant of Holme. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Humes?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhjumz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Humes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 39 thousand people named Humes in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled humes.
- How common is the name Humes?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,093 people named Humes in 2010, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/humesThe 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, “Humes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.