Human
org · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Human is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Late Middle English humayne, humain, from Middle French humain, from Old French humain, umain, from Latin hūmānus m (“of or belonging to a man, human, humane”, adjective), from homo, with unclear.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 124K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 191K
- USUnited States1 in 194K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 240 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
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)- Late Middle Englishhumayne(measured from records)
- Middle Frenchhumain(measured from records)
- Old Frenchhumain(measured from records)
- Latinhūmānus(measured from records)
From Late Middle English humayne, humain, from Middle French humain, from Old French humain, umain, from Latin hūmānus m (“of or belonging to a man, human, humane”, adjective), from homo, with unclear ū. Spelling human has been predominant since the early 18th century.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Human, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Human 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Human | 92 |
| US United States | 1,715 | 1 in 194K | 2.2K | Human | 240 |
| IN India | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 1 | Human | 28 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 191K | — | Human | 94 |
| AU Australia | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Human | 69 |
| SG Singapore | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Human | 8 |
| NO Norway | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 120K | 16 | — | 1 |
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 2020; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Roger Humanb. 1909GBcricketer (1909-1942)
- John Humanb. 1912GBcricketer (1912-1991)
- Johannes Humanb. 1930ZASouth African sports shooter
- Pote Humanb. 1959ZASouth African rugby union footballer and coach (1959-)
- Dirk Humanb. 1961ZAresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-0346-4209
- Daan Humanb. 1976ZASouth African rugby union footballer
- Wylie Humanb. 1979ZASouth African rugby union footballer
- Shirene Humanb. 1980ZASouth African figure skater
- Kost HumanZASouth African rugby league footballer
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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.2K | #13,240 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,696 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,844 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 53 | #5,729 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Human mean, and where does it come from?
- From Late Middle English humayne, humain, from Middle French humain, from Old French humain, umain, from Latin hūmānus m (“of or belonging to a man, human, humane”, adjective), from homo, with unclear… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Human have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Human in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled human.
- How common is the name Human?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,715 people named Human in 2010, about 1 in 194 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/humanThe 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, “Human”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.