Hunn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from OE Hun(n)a; first attested Robertus filius Hunne c1155 DC (L) (A Dictionary of English Surnames)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Hunn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,950 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 23K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 42K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 110K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 261 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
1,950 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- OEHunn(measured from records)
- ONhúnn(measured from records)
from OE Hun(n)a; first attested Robertus filius Hunne c1155 DC (L). Also perhaps from ON húnn 'young bear'; first attested Seman', Martin, Robert le Hunne 1277 Ely (Sf)
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Hunn is found
(measured from records)Hunn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,950 | 1 in 171K | 2.4K | Hunn | 261 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Hunn | 98 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 165K | — | Hunn | 56 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 365 | 1 in 23K | 365 | Hunn | 29 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #240 | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 472K | — | Hunn | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 136K | — | Hunn | 72 |
| NO Norway | — | 130 | 1 in 42K | 130 | — | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Hunn | 22 |
1,950 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)Hunn is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from the personal name Huno, a short form of a Germanic compound name formed with hun ‘Hun’, ‘giant’ or hun ‘bear cub’ as the first element.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from a nickname derived from Old Norse hiinn ‘bear cub’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from an Old English personal name, Hun(n)a.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Luxembourgish, to have
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)- John Hunnb. 1849USAmerican businessman (1849-1926)
- Bert Hunnb. 1850USAmerican actor
- Alexa HunnEnglish footballer
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Hunn come from?
- from OE Hun(n)a; first attested Robertus filius Hunne c1155 DC (L). Also perhaps from ON húnn 'young bear'; first attested Seman', Martin, Robert le Hunne 1277 Ely (Sf) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- What does the name Hunn mean?
- Recorded meaning: from OE Hun(n)a; first attested Robertus filius Hunne c1155 DC (L).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hunn?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Hunn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hunn. After it come United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland and Congo - Kinshasa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Hunn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hunn is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hunn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,950 people named Hunn in 2010, about 1 in 171 thousand residents.
- How common is Hunn compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Hunn is the 240th most common surname of 44,726 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hunnThe 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, “Hunn” — ranked 11994th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.