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Hone

in the US

There are 1,616 people with the last name "Hone" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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Hone 14,566
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  1. is 14,562nd most common Abella
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  4. is 14,565th most common Damm
  5. is 14,566th most common Hone
  6. is 14,567th most common Mckinnis
  7. is 14,568th most common Pawlik
  8. is 14,569th most common Petroff
  9. is 14,570th most common Stemple

Similar Names and Nicknames

Honeycutt, Hume, Honea, Honey, Hine, Honer, Honeywell, Honeyman, Home, Honegger

Most Common First Names for Hone

John, David, James, Michael, Robert, Mary, Daniel, Linda, Stephen, Donald

Meaning & History

English: topographic name for someone who lived by a boundary stone or a prominent outcrop of rock, from Middle English hōn ‘stone’, ‘rock’. This is the same word as modern English hone ‘whetstone’, and the surname may also be a metonymic occupational name for someone who used a whetstone to sharpen swords, daggers, and knives.

Dutch and North German (Höne): from the Germanic personal name Huno, a short form of the various compound names with the first element hūn. Compare, for example, Humphrey. The exact meaning of this element is disputed, but it may be cognate with Old Norse húnn ‘bear cub’.

FOREBEARS This surname has been established in Devon and Gloucestershire, England, since the 14th century. There are a number of Irish bearers of the name Hone who claim that it is an altered form of Welsh Owen. One family in Ireland can be traced to Samuel Hone, who went to Ireland as a soldier in 1649, probably from the Netherlands, and settled in Dublin.

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