Hosch

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Hosch is a surname, most frequently recorded in Germany. In the Seychelles it is the 4th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: 1. (North German): nickname from a reduced form of Middle Low German hovesch ‘courtly’, a derivative of hof ‘court’ (see Hoff).

rarermore common
  • DEGermany1 in 46K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 202K
  • SCSeychelles1 in 2.3K

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

≈1.8K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
188 ●

18K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 165K ◐

Switzerland

Spellings & scripts●

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hösch in DE Germany, AT Austria and Hoesch in PL Poland, NL Netherlands.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

1. (North German): nickname from a reduced form of Middle Low German hovesch ‘courtly’, a derivative of hof ‘court’ (see Hoff). 2. (South German): probably a nickname for a scornful person, from Middle High German hoschen ‘to mock’, hosche ‘mockery’. 3. (eastern German, of Slavic origin): from a pet form of the personal name Johannes (see Johann, John).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Hosch is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany—2,4342.2K rec.——Hösch56
US United States—1,64313K rec.1 in 202K1.6KHosch188
GB United Kingdom—605604 rec.——Hosch10
AT Austria—187118 rec.——Hösch21
CA Canada—148150 rec.——Hosch8
AU Australia—121120 rec.——Hosch15
SC Seychelles#492198 rec.——Hosch2
ZW Zimbabwe#7858787 rec.——Hosch1
AG Antigua & Barbuda—59178 rec.——Hosch1
CH Switzerland—51△20 rec.1 in 165K51Hosch12
BR Brazil—43125 rec.1 in 4.9M43Hosch17
RU Russia—3740 rec.——Hosch3

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Languages●

  • English13K73%
  • German1.9K11%
  • Spanish7944%
  • French4412%
  • 3722%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English13,35473%
German1,93911%
Spanish7944%
French4412%
3722%

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◐

Hosch is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname461 records spelled Hosch3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Hösch

  • a separate surname430 records spelled Hosch2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Hösch

  • Polish surname182 records spelled Hosch4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, United States

    Languages: Polish, Czech

    Also written Hösch

  • Italian surname31 records spelled Hosch2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Hösch

31 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●

0510151900192019401960198011 · 1901

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Hosch in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
18917
190111
19115
19215
19318
19417
19515
19617
19814
19915

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 10 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●

18501900195020002050Kaspar Hosch, b. 1859Huwe Bernstein, b. 1862Paul Alfred Hosch, b. 1886Karl Hosch, b. 1900Nicolas Hosch, b. 1914Julie Hosch, b. 1939Larry Hosch, b. 1977Tobias Hosch, b. 2001

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 17 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Hosch
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.6K#17,239
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.6K#16,373
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.6K#17,663
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202451#18,386
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—43#116,436
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—36—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200828#38,435
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202619—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—19#92,280
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)190111—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20269—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—9#142,806

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 26 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hosch?
We estimate roughly 1.8 thousand people bear Hosch (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Hosch have the most bearers?
Hosch is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled hösch.
How common is Hosch compared with other names?
In the Seychelles, Hosch is the 4th most common surname of 1,716 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Hosch mean?
Recorded meaning: 1. (North German): nickname from a reduced form of Middle Low German hovesch ‘courtly’, a derivative of hof ‘court’ (see Hoff).
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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, “Hosch” — the 4th most common surname in Seychelles. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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