Höld
surname · Latin script
Höld is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Old Norse hqldr, within the Danelaw (the region of pre-conquest England where Danish rule and custom was dominant) a rank of feudal nobility immediately below that of earl.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 213K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 766K
- ATAustria≈1 in 26K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈620 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hold in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Old Norse hqldr, within the Danelaw (the region of pre-conquest England where Danish rule and custom was dominant) a rank of feudal nobility immediately below that of earl.
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Höld 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 130K | listed | Höld | 60 |
| US United States | 434 | 1 in 766K | 437 | Hold | 178 |
| AT Austria | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Höld | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 311K | — | Hold | 81 |
| CH Switzerland | 129 | 1 in 65K | 129 | — | 20 |
| AU Australia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 213K | — | Hold | 52 |
| DK Denmark | 41 | 1 in 143K | 41 | — | 1 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Höld mean, and where does it come from?
- from Old Norse hqldr, within the Danelaw (the region of pre-conquest England where Danish rule and custom was dominant) a rank of feudal nobility immediately below that of earl. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- In which country does Höld have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 615 people named Höld in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled höld.
- How common is the name Höld?
- In the United States, the national register counted 434 people named Höld in 2010, about 1 in 766 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%B6ldThe 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, “Höld”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.