Hust

surname · Latin script

Meaning: habitational name from various places, for example Huste near Melle or Husten near Olpe

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

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

Hust is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 278K(measured from records)
  • SHSt. Helena≈1 in 6.8K
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 44K

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.

United States (measured from records)

1,195 people, 2010

Sources
184 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)

St. Helena, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

habitational name from various places, for example Huste near Melle or Husten near Olpe.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hust 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 Hust is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1,1951 in 278K1.2KHust184
DE Germany—≈410 est.≈1 in 195K—Hust52
IT Italy—≈200 est.≈1 in 317K—Hust2
CA Canada—≈120 est.≈1 in 304K—Hust25
NZ New Zealand—≈110 est.≈1 in 44K—Hust2
DK Denmark—831 in 71K83—1
EE Estonia—≈9 est.≈1 in 140Klisted—1
SH St. Helena#197≈1 est.≈1 in 6.8K—Hust1

1,195 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

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

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Ḥusṭ, H̱ūst

  • Danish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Hùst

  • Ukrainian surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Poland, United States, Czechia

    Languages: Ukrainian, Polish, Russian

    Also written Хуст, Khust, Húšť, Ḫušt, Hušť

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Hüst

28 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)

Hust 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.

  • In Norwegian Bokmål, past participle of huse

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

  • In tpn, Lamy spelling of 'y

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

  • In gmw-ecg, cough

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

  • In Breton, robe

    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)

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)

FormalDear Hust,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Hust
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.2K#21,759
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.2K#21,025
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.1K#24,492
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—83#6,570
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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 Hust mean, and where does it come from?
habitational name from various places, for example Huste near Melle or Husten near Olpe. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Hust?
A machine transcription gives /ˈhəst/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Hust have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Hust, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hust.
How common is the name Hust?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,195 people named Hust in 2010, about 1 in 278 thousand residents.
How common is Hust compared with other names?
In St. Helena, Hust is the 197th most common surname of 3,440 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Hust” — the 197th most common surname in St. Helena. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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