Hohn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from ahd. höni 'low'; also from mhd
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhɑn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hohn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 95Kas Hoehn
- CHSwitzerland1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hohn itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 279 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 named Hoehn, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hoehn in US United States, IE Ireland, CD Congo - Kinshasa and 1 more and Höhn in DE Germany, CH Switzerland.
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)
from ahd. höni 'low'; also from mhd. hoene 'despised, arrogant'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hohn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Hoehn | 2 |
| DE Germany | #489 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Höhn | 107 |
| US United States | — | 3,499as Hoehn | 1 in 95K | 3.6K | Hoehn | 279 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Hoehn | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 586 | 1 in 14K | 586 | Höhn | 24 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Hoehn | 3 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Hohn 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.
from Middle Low German hon ‘chicken’, hence a nickname, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who raised poultry.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
North German; topographic name from an old word, hon, meaning ‘bog’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from an aphetic form of the personal name Johann(es) (see John).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
4. South German (Hohn); variant of Hoehne.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, mockery; scorn; derision
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)
- Maia Bangb. 1879NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian violinist
- Hermann Hohnb. 1897DEGerman general (1897–1968)
- Barbara Hohnb. 1939ATAustrian molecular biologist
- Manfred Hohnb. 1941ATAustrian non-fiction writer
- Bob Hohnb. 1941USformer professional American football player
- Reinhold Hohnb. 1948DEGerman politician
- Uwe Hohnb. 1962DEGerman track and field athlete
- Annette Hohnb. 1966DEGerman rower
- Chris Hohnb. 1967GBBritish hedge fund manager
- Mario Hohnb. 1989DEGerman association football player
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 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,375 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.7K | #11,508 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.5K | #11,957 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 25 | #31,192 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Hohn come from?
- from ahd. höni 'low'; also from mhd. hoene 'despised, arrogant' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Hohn?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɑn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Hohn mean?
- Recorded meaning: from ahd. höni 'low'; also from mhd.
- In which country does Hohn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Hoehn in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hohn?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 586 people named Hohn in 2024, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Hohn compared with other names?
- In Germany, Hohn is the 489th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hohnThe 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, “Hohn” — the 489th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.