Vanhove
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/vɑnɦoːvə/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Vanhove is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 37K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 350K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 187 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
4,290 people, 2008
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Vanhove 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | #241 | 4,290 | 1 in 2.7K | 4.3K | Vanhove | 67 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 232 | Vanhove | 187 |
| US United States | — | 461 | 1 in 722K | 511 | Vanhove | 121 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | 12 | Vanhove | 16 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 792K | — | Vanhove | 19 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 191K | — | Vanhove | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 24 | 1 in 350K | 24 | Vanhove | 6 |
4,290 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008, counting the spelling van hove. 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 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Charles Joseph Vanhoveb. 1739FRFrench stage actor (1739-1803)
- Charlotte Vanhoveb. 1771FRFrench actress
- Françoise Cactusb. 1958DEnot in their usual nameFrench writer and singer (1958-2021)
- Martine Vanhoveb. 1959FRFrench linguist
- Pierre Vanhoveb. 1970FRFrench engineer
- Bruno Vanhoveb. 1983BEBelgian athletics competitor
- Bernard Vanhoveb. 2000FRresearcher
- Marith Vanhoveb. 2003BEBelgian cyclist
- Doris VanhoveBEarchaeologist
- Maarten P. M. VanhoveBEBelgian parasitologist
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)Evidence
(measured from records)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4K | #172 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 3.8K | #175 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 511 | #40,335 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 488 | #46,955 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 461 | #46,219 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 277 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 274 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 274 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 241 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 232 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 214 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 207 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Vanhove?
- In Dutch /vɑnɦoːvə/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Vanhove have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Vanhove, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vanhove.
- Where is Vanhove most common?
- Vanhove is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Vanhove?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 4,290 people named Vanhove in 2008, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Vanhove compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Vanhove is the 241st most common surname of 246,397 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vanhove?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vanhoveThe 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, “Vanhove” — the 241st most common surname in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.