Hun
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative spelling of hon (“affectionate abbreviation of honey”)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Hun is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 203 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Alternative spelling of hon (“affectionate abbreviation of honey”).
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hun counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 780 | Hun | 203 |
| BR Brazil | — | 81 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | — | 80 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 35 | — | 1 |
| FR France | — | 34 | — | 2 |
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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Hun is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Free person.
as a nameThe African book of names
In Khmer, invested money, share (of a corporation). {Th, hun ‘share in b u s i n e s s .’) 2 . n, one centimeter; a unit of weight equal to 0.375 gram. (< Chin. ) ITjSmtn small share (in an investment). OfiJlTiS to invest money (in some business venture). [cpniSs invested capital. mu
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume II (ម-អ)
In Dutch, a) their b) (to) them
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
In Vietnamese, Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam form of hôn (“to kiss”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Huns; alternative form of Huns; a nomadic people originating out of Central Asia that invaded the Roman Empire in the 5th century
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)- Agah Hünb. 1918TRTurkish actor and director (1918–1990)
- Isao Harimotob. 1940JPnot in their usual nameSouth Korean-Japanese former professional baseball player, baseball critic, baseball commentator (1940-)
- Kim Hoonb. 1948KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean writer
- Suh Hoonb. 1954KRnot in their usual nameDirector of the National Intelligence Service of South Korea
- Chung Hoonb. 1969KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean judoka
- Hoon Leeb. 1973USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Lee Hoonb. 1973KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Song Hoonb. 1975KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor (1975-)
- Park Hoonb. 1981KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Cha Hunb. 1994KRSouth Korean singer
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)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 780 | #31,754 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 623 | #35,993 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 511 | #40,335 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 81 | #74,062 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 80 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 75 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 34 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 30 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 26 | #39,858 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 24 | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
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 Hun mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative spelling of hon (“affectionate abbreviation of honey”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Hun have the most bearers?
- Hun is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled hun.
What do you want to know about Hun?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hunThe 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, “Hun”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.