Huo

surname · Latin script

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

Huo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Mandarin 霍 (Huò). More at English Wikipedia for Huo. Compare Fok.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 362K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 348K
  • SESweden1 in 464K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

920 people, 2010

Sources
194 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 348K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Borrowed from Mandarin 霍 (Huò). More at English Wikipedia for Huo. Compare Fok.

Sources 2

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Huo 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 Huo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States9201 in 362K1.5KHuo194
ES Spain591 in 848K59—5
SE Sweden221 in 464K22——
PL Poland171 in 2.3M12—1
FI Finland161 in 348K16——
CH Switzerland151 in 560K15—3
DK Denmark121 in 489K12——

920 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 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)

Huo is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in China, United States, Colombia, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Huô, Hườ, Húo

  • Malay surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, China, Indonesia, United States

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Hûó

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in China, Russia, Ukraine, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Хуо, Huò

51 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

0500100015002000Huo Guang, b. 150Huo Yuanjia, b. 1868Timothy Fok, b. 1946Clarence Fok, b. 1958Huo Jianqi, b. 1958Raymond Huo, b. 1964Wallace Huo, b. 1979Kenneth Fok, b. 1979Huo Siyan, b. 1981Huo Liang, b. 1989

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)

Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Huo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.5K#18,654
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010920#26,516
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000495#41,448
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—59#40,010
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—59#39,527
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—22#23,403
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—16#42,767
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202415#45,119
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202612—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—12#121,066
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—12#34,956
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20265—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 Huo mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Mandarin 霍 (Huò). More at English Wikipedia for Huo. Compare Fok. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
In which country does Huo have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 920 people named Huo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled huo.
Where is Huo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Huo is densest in Finland — about 1 in 348 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Huo?
In the United States, the national register counted 920 people named Huo in 2010, about 1 in 362 thousand residents.

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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, “Huo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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