# Hoon (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/hoon/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Dutch.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Dutch |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 979 |
| US rank (2010) | 25,295 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 315,368 people |
| Change since 2000 | +7.7% (909 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From the Dutch surname de Hoon, from Middle Dutch hoon (“dangerous”), from Old Dutch *honi (“despicable”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Hoon in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 85% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 2.0% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 7.3% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.8% |
| Two or more races | 2.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Hoon in the United States and Malaysia.

## People named Hoon

- Shannon Hoon, American singer-songwriter
- Hoon Thien How, badminton player

## Similar surnames

Hoehn, Honea, Honey, Hohn, Hone, Hon, Huynh, Hahn, Hanna, Haney, Han, Hamm.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.