as a Last Name
- 1,144
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Hoo
Meaning & Origins
English (East Anglia and the south): topographic name for someone who lived on a spur of a hill, from the Old English dative case hōe (originally used after a preposition) of hōh ‘spur of a hill’. The surname may also derive from any of the minor places named with this word, such as Hoo in Kent and Hooe in Devon and Sussex.
| 23,676th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,144
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Hawaii
- has the most people named Hoo per capita
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