Frequency: (193)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Dutch and German: nickname from hoen ‘chicken’, ‘hen’, perhaps denoting a silly person.
2. Dutch: from the Germanic personal name Huno (from hūn ‘bear cub’).
3. German: variant of Höhn (see Hoehn).
4. Norwegian: habitational name from either of two farmsteads named Hon, from Old Norse hundr ‘dog’, or from Hóvin, a compound of hór ‘high’ + vin ‘meadow’.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
