هو
surname · Arabic script
Meaning: he (subject pronoun)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
هو is a surname written in the Arabic script, most frequently recorded in Iran.
- SASaudi Arabia
- MAMorocco
- EGEgypt
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Iran (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 13 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)he (subject pronoun)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)هو counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IR Iran | — | 1 | هو | 6 |
| EG Egypt | — | — | هو | 13 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | — | هو | 3 |
| MA Morocco | — | — | هو | 4 |
| PK Pakistan | — | listed | — | — |
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: National Organization for Civil Registration — National Given-Name Frequencies (Sahim naming system). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)هو is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In klj, Arabic spelling of həv (“house”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In apc, he (third-person masculine singular subject pronoun)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sqt, I. first-person singular pronoun
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bqi, he, that
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Sindhi, that
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Hồ Xuân Hươngb. 1772VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese poet (1772–1822)
- Hu Shihb. 1891TWnot in their usual nameChinese scholar, writer and philosopher (1891–1962)
- Hu Yaobangb. 1915CNnot in their usual nameChinese politician (1915-1989), former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
- Stanley Hob. 1921CNnot in their usual nameMacau gambling magnate (1921–2020)
- Hu Jintaob. 1942CNnot in their usual nameformer General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
- Edmund Ho Hau Wahb. 1955CNnot in their usual nameChinese politician
- Kelly Hub. 1968USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Hu Junb. 1968CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor
- Hu Jiab. 1973CNnot in their usual nameChinese activist
- Hu Bob. 1988CNnot in their usual nameChinese novelist and film director (1988-2017)
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name هو mean, and where does it come from?
- he (subject pronoun) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name هو?
- In the etymology graph, Sap is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does هو have the most bearers?
- هو is most frequently recorded in Iran, where it is most often spelled هو.
What do you want to know about هو?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D9%87%D9%88The 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, “هو”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.