Hode
surname · Latin script
Meaning: To ordain; consecrate; admit to a religious order
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hoʊd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hode is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 163K(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 105K
- BJBenin≈1 in 117K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 139 (measured from records)
- 1 in 105K (inferred from the name graph)
≈420 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
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)
To ordain; consecrate; admit to a religious order.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hode 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 163K | 86 | Hode | 139 |
| BJ Benin | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 117K | — | Hode | 3 |
| US United States | 107 | 1 in 3.1M | 118 | — | 1 |
| JP Japan | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | listed | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 21 | 1 in 10M | 21 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 20 | 1 in 105K | 20 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | listed | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); the japanese-surnames-hadamitzky-1998 register. 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)
Hode 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 Danish, pronunciation spelling of hoved (“head”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of hoden (“to hood”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, alternative form of hovud (“head”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, Used to convey surprise: holy shit; bloody hell
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, male-to-female cross-player:
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)
- Maja HodeSIresearcher
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 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 118 | #143,511 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 115 | #134,929 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 107 | #152,628 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 96 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 95 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 86 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 82 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 75 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 68 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 57 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 55 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 51 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Hode mean, and where does it come from?
- To ordain; consecrate; admit to a religious order. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Hode?
- In the etymology graph, Hede is a form of the same name in other languages; Hodel and Dassah are recorded short or pet forms.
- How do you pronounce Hode?
- A machine transcription gives /hoʊd/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Hode have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 417 people named Hode in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hode.
- Where is Hode most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hode is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 105 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hode?
- In the United States, the national register counted 107 people named Hode in 2010, about 1 in 3.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Hode?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hodeThe 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, “Hode”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.