Hugo

Hugo is the 10,695th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,854 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 105,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,854
Rank: 10,695th
How common: 1 in 105,000
Per 100,000: 0.95

Where the name comes from

Origin French

From Old French Hugo, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *hugi (“thought, mind, spirit”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Hugo described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 66.6%
Hispanic or Latino 13.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 10.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 6.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Hugo

Gustav Hugo (1764–1844)German jurist
Adèle Hugo (1830–1915)2nd daughter of Victor Hugo
Chad Hugo (born 1974)American record producer
Valentine Hugo (1887–1968)French painter, draftsman, and illustrator
Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo (1773–1828)father of Victor Hugo
Pieter Hugo (born 1976)South African photographer
Charles Hugo (born 1850)French Olympic sailor
Tom Hugo (born 1979)Norwegian singer, songwriter and musician

People named Hugo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Hugo

Also a first name

Hugo has been given to 37,518 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.