Hosté

surname · Latin script

Hosté is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Kent; Suffolk. see Ost .

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 127K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.7M

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.

Belgium (measured from records)

2,711 people, 2008

Sources
144 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hoste in BE Belgium, FR France, US United States and 2 more.

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)

Main GB Location (1881): Kent; Suffolk. see Ost .

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hosté 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.

Where Hosté is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BE Belgium#4132,7111 in 4.3K2.7KHoste67
FR France—≈530 est.≈1 in 127K81Hoste144
US United States—1991 in 1.7M209Hoste121
NL Netherlands—1191 in 145K119Hoste22
BR Brazil—951 in 2.2M95——
DK Denmark—141 in 419K14—1
NZ New Zealand—≈11 est.≈1 in 430K—Hoste1

2,711 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hosté is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Hoste

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Hosté under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Hosté mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Kent; Suffolk. see Ost . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
In which country does Hosté have the most bearers?
In Belgium, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Hosté, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hoste.
Where is Hosté most common?
Hosté is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.3 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Hosté?
In Belgium, the national register counted 2,711 people named Hosté in 2008, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
How common is Hosté compared with other names?
In Belgium, Hosté is the 413th most common surname of 246,397 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Hosté” — the 413th most common surname in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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