Huon

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A locality in the Shire of Indigo, north-east Victoria, Australia

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

Huon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BEBelgium1 in 34K
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 268K

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.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,700 people, est.

Sources
223 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A locality in the Shire of Indigo, north-east Victoria, Australia.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Huon 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 Huon is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈2,700 est.≈1 in 25K317Huon223
BE Belgium3481 in 34K348Huon26
US United States1731 in 1.9M227Huon39
AU Australia≈95 est.≈1 in 268K7——
CA Canada≈31 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Huon11
CH Switzerland121 in 700K12—3

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM). 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)

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

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Belgium, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Dutch, German

    Also written Hươn

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Hướn, Hườn

  • Korean surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Korea

    Also written 후언

  • a separate surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Huôn, Huồn, Hườn, Huốn, Hướn

36 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)

Huon is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In aau, wild fowl

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Breton, soleil

    as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

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)

1700180019002000Guillaume Huon, b. 1757Jean-François Huon, b. 1821Ronan Huon, b. 1922Frans Huon, b. 1940Monique Huon, b. 1951Tudual Huon, b. 1953Joëlle Huon, b. 1964Soben Huon, b. 1983

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)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Huon, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Huon
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951444—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961418—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941405—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971380—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981367—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008348#4,640
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921341—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991317—
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—313#5,413
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931281—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1901256—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1911246—

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Huon mean, and where does it come from?
A locality in the Shire of Indigo, north-east Victoria, Australia. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Huon?
A machine transcription gives /ɥɔ̃/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Huon have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Huon in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled huon.
How common is the name Huon?
In Belgium, the national register counted 348 people named Huon in 2008, about 1 in 34 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, “Huon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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