Hoarau

surname · French · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Hoarau is a surname, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Réunion it is the 16th most common surname. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Originating from mainland France where it became extinct until recently. (attested 1640s in Menneville, Picardie Province). Now most prevalent in Réunion. Possibly from Dutch or Middle Dutch.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance1 in 21K◐
  • RERéunion1 in 468
  • MGMadagascar1 in 18K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈3.2K ●

across 7 countries

Sources
243 ●

38K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 21K ◐

France

Meaning & origin●

Originating from mainland France where it became extinct until recently. (attested 1640s in Menneville, Picardie Province). Now most prevalent in Réunion. Possibly from Dutch or Middle Dutch.

Sources 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Hoarau is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#1933,16536K rec.1 in 21K3.2KHoarau243
US United States—635579 rec.—listedHoarau69
AU Australia—282241 rec.——Hoarau32
RE Réunion#16273569 rec.——Hoarau39
GB United Kingdom—10280 rec.——Hoarau25
CA Canada—10196 rec.——Hoarau20
RU Russia—6969 rec.——Hoarau3
DE Germany—2619 rec.——Hoarau23
BE Belgium—2287 rec.1 in 533K22Hoarau13
CH Switzerland—2010 rec.1 in 420K20Hoarau5
ES Spain—19160 rec.1 in 2.6M19Hoarau15
ZA South Africa—1217 rec.——Hoarau5

Roughly 3.2K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 21K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • French75K98%
  • English9131%
  • German1221%
  • Spanish921%
  • Portuguese341%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French75,37698%
English9131%
German1221%
Spanish921%
Portuguese341%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

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

  • Russian surname25 records spelled Hoarau5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Réunion

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Оаро

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Over time●

01K2K3K4K190019201940196019803.4K · 1961

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Hoarau in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
1891164
1901976
19111,164
19211,390
19311,820
19412,219
19512,977
19613,446
19713,134
19813,413
19913,165

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Élie Hoarau, b. 1938Claude Hoarau, b. 1942Isabelle Hoarau, b. 1955Gélita Hoarau, b. 1956Sylvie Hoarau, b. 1970Nicolas Hoarau, b. 1983Guillaume Hoarau, b. 1984Ann O'Aro, b. 1990Pauline Hoarau, b. 1994

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●

Attested in 14 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Hoarau
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19613.4K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19813.4K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19913.2K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19713.1K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19513K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19412.2K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19311.8K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19211.4K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19111.2K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1901976—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1891164—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200822#44,792

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 20 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hoarau?
We estimate roughly 3.2 thousand people bear Hoarau (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Hoarau have the most bearers?
We estimate about 3.2 thousand people bear Hoarau in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled hoarau.
How common is Hoarau compared with other names?
In France, Hoarau is the 193rd most common surname of 1,061,840 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Hoarau mean?
Recorded meaning: Originating from mainland France where it became extinct until recently. (attested 1640s in Menneville, Picardie Province). Now most prevalent in Réunion. Possibly from Dutch or Middle Dutch.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Hoarau” — the 193rd most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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