Höle
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Höle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol (“orifice, hollow place, cavity”), from Proto-West Germanic *hol, from Proto-Germanic *hulą (“hollow space, cavity”), noun derivative of Proto-Germa.
- USUnited States1 in 185K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 1.4K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 34K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 254 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
3,880 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hole in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and Ho-Le in AU Australia.
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)
- Middle Englishhole(measured from records)
- Old Englishhol“orifice“orifice, hollow place, cavity”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*hol(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*hulą“hollow space“hollow space, cavity”(measured from records)
From Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol (“orifice, hollow place, cavity”), from Proto-West Germanic *hol, from Proto-Germanic *hulą (“hollow space, cavity”), noun derivative of Proto-Germanic *hulaz (“hollow”), which is of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to hollow.
Sources 6
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Höle 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 3,880 | 1 in 1.4K | 3.9K | — | 43 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 34K | listed | Hole | 164 |
| US United States | 1,794 | 1 in 185K | 2K | Hole | 254 |
| AU Australia | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Ho-Le | 106 |
| CA Canada | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Hole | 73 |
| DK Denmark | 49 | 1 in 120K | 49 | — | — |
3,880 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; 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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Höle mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol (“orifice, hollow place, cavity”), from Proto-West Germanic *hol, from Proto-Germanic *hulą (“hollow space, cavity”), noun derivative of Proto-Germa… Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Höle have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named Höle, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Höle most common?
- Höle is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Höle?
- In Norway, the national register counted 3,880 people named Höle, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%B6leThe 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, “Höle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.