Hoog
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German hooch ‘high’, in the sense of ‘noble’, ‘proud’, ‘of high status’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hoog is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 108K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 651K
- SESweden≈1 in 133K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 188 (measured from records)
- 1 in 108K (inferred from the name graph)
≈520 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nickname from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German hooch ‘high’, in the sense of ‘noble’, ‘proud’, ‘of high status’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hoog 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Hoog | 56 |
| US United States | — | 511 | 1 in 651K | 536 | Hoog | 188 |
| FR France | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 217K | 32 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | #521 | 160 | 1 in 108K | 160 | Hoog | 79 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 721K | — | Hoog | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Hoog | 12 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Hoog | 12 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Hoog is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
nickname for a tall person from hog ‘high’, ‘tali’, possibly a soldier’s name.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Dutch, high
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
In frr, high, tall
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, impetus
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)
- Romeyn de Hoogheb. 1645NLnot in their usual nameDutch Golden Age painter, engraver, and sculptor (1645-1708)
- Georges Hoogb. 1885FRFrench politician (1885-1944)
- Otto Hoogb. 1913DEGerman politician (1913–1984)
- Günter Hoogb. 1932DEGerman writer (1932-2010)
- Michel Hoogb. 1932FRFrench curator (1932-2000)
- Else Hoogb. 1937NLDutch translator
- Sébastien Hoogb. 1973FRFrench musician and guitarist
- Ellen Hoogb. 1986NLDutch field hockey player
- Falk-Adrian Hoogb. 1987DEGerman writer
- Mitchell Hoogb. 1999USAmerican actor and model
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)
Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 536 | #38,771 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 531 | #43,758 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 511 | #42,455 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 160 | #12,818 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 49 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 48 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 46 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 42 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 42 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 35 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Hoog mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German hooch ‘high’, in the sense of ‘noble’, ‘proud’, ‘of high status’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Hoog?
- In the etymology graph, Hoch is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Hoog have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 523 people named Hoog in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hoog.
- Where is Hoog most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hoog is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 108 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hoog?
- In the United States, the national register counted 511 people named Hoog in 2010, about 1 in 651 thousand residents.
- How common is Hoog compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Hoog is the 521st most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hoogThe 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, “Hoog” — the 521st most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.