Hosp

org · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Hosp is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: from Latin argot hospes, originally ‘innkeeper’, later used in the sense ‘strange guy’, ‘odd bird’.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States
  • BRBrazil
  • NGNigeria

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.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from Latin argot hospes, originally ‘innkeeper’, later used in the sense ‘strange guy’, ‘odd bird’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Eduard Hosp, b. 1886Adolf Hosp, b. 1892Maria Hosp, b. 1923Bruno Hosp, b. 1938Inga Hosp, b. 1943Albert Hosp, b. 1964Anna Hosp, b. 1966David Hosp, b. 1968Nicole Feurstein-Hosp, b. 1982Nicole Hosp, b. 1983

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 14 sources across 7 countries.

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Hosp mean, and where does it come from?
from Latin argot hospes, originally ‘innkeeper’, later used in the sense ‘strange guy’, ‘odd bird’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Hosp have the most bearers?
Hosp is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hosp”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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