Homme
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname from Old French homme ‘man’ (compare Mann), or status name from the same word with the sense ‘vassal’, ‘feudal tenant’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɔm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Homme is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 4.2K(measured from records)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 44K
- CMCameroon≈1 in 46K
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)
- Sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
1,298 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nickname from Old French homme ‘man’ (compare Mann), or status name from the same word with the sense ‘vassal’, ‘feudal tenant’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Homme 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 | — | 1,298 | 1 in 4.2K | 1.3K | Homme | 5 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Homme | 3 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Homme | 2 |
| US United States | — | 534 | 1 in 623K | 536 | Homme | 74 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Homme | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 385K | — | Homme | 39 |
| HT Haiti | #171 | — | — | — | Homme | 6 |
1,298 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. 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)
Homme 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 Norwegian, from a French form of the Germanic personal name Autmar, Otmar, composed of the elements aud ‘wealth’ + meri, mari ‘renowned’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Norwegian, habitational name from any of several farmsteads in Agder and Telemark, so named from Old Norse hvammr ‘small valley’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In French, man (adult male human)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of hamme (“back of the knee”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In frm, man (male adult human being)
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)
- Bob Hommeb. 1919USCanadian actor (1919-2000)
- Eivind S. Hommeb. 1957NONorwegian diplomat (born 1957)
- Josh Hommeb. 1973USAmerican musician
- Halvor Hommeb. 1975NONorwegian politician
- Christine Hommeb. 1990NONorwegian handball player
- Erling Hommeb. 1998NONorwegian cyclist
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)
Attested in 22 sources across 10 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Homme mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname from Old French homme ‘man’ (compare Mann), or status name from the same word with the sense ‘vassal’, ‘feudal tenant’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Homme?
- A machine transcription gives /ɔm/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Homme have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Homme, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled homme.
- Where is Homme most common?
- Homme is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Homme?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,298 people named Homme, about 1 in 4.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Homme compared with other names?
- In Haiti, Homme is the 171st most common surname of 1,519 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hommeThe 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, “Homme” — the 171st most common surname in Haiti. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.