Hona
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Name of the Scottish island where St Columba founded a monastery after leaving Ireland
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: ASK Kosovo, 2023
/ona/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Hona is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PGPapua New Guinea≈1 in 97K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 120K
- XKKosovo≈1 in 160K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 62K (inferred from the name graph)
≈920 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
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)Name of the Scottish island where St Columba founded a monastery after leaving Ireland.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hona 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Hona | 26 |
| IN India | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | 3 | Hona | 4 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Hona | 2 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 411K | — | Hona | 5 |
| AU Australia | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 264K | — | Hona | 52 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Hona | 33 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 1 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 51 | 1 in 4.2M | 51 | — | 1 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 155K | 49 | — | 2 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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)Hona 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 men, the spleen of one supposed to have slain others by witcheraft, any unusual and secret power
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In Swedish, female (of animals, sometimes also plants, rarely of humans)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bbc, be struck by something (also in a figurative sense)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In ofs, rooster, cock
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tkl, his, her
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)- Hans Hona van Gelderenb. 1924NLDutch university teacher
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 49 | #4,358 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 21 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1961 | 13 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1990 | 10 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1956 | 10 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1941 | 10 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1969 | 8 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1966 | 8 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1963 | 8 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1993 | 7 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1955 | 7 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1992 | 6 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Hona mean, and where does it come from?
- Name of the Scottish island where St Columba founded a monastery after leaving Ireland. Recorded by Irish first names.
- How do you pronounce Hona?
- In Spanish /ona/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Hona have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 915 people named Hona in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hona.
- How common is the name Hona?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 51 people named Hona, about 1 in 4.2 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/honaThe 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, “Hona”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.