Howard Forename
2,299th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 444,080 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Jamaica
Howard Forename Definition:
A male name. the use of this surname as a christian name is quite recent and there seems no particular reason for it except that it is the name of several noble families. The origin of the surname itself is doubtful; it seems sometimes to be from the name of the manorial officer, the hayward, and sometimes from a personal name Howard, Heward, or Hewerald which occurs in the 11th and 12th C.
Read More About This ForenameHoward Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 100% | 337,714 | 1:1,074 | 233 |
| England | 100% | 30,624 | 1:1,816 | 323 |
| Canada | 100% | 22,468 | 1:1,475 | 330 |
| South Africa | 100% | 7,381 | 1:7,388 | 1,345 |
| Australia | - | 5,548 | 1:2,462 | 432 |
| Jamaica | - | 4,569 | 1:631 | 152 |
| Zambia | - | 3,761 | 1:4,216 | 622 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 3,496 | 1:4,412 | 711 |
| Wales | 100% | 3,476 | 1:890 | 216 |
| Malawi | 100% | 3,363 | 1:5,088 | 745 |
| Philippines | 100% | 2,267 | 1:46,762 | 3,474 |
| New Zealand | - | 1,858 | 1:2,441 | 433 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 1,178 | 1:25,638 | 1,979 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 1,166 | 1:26,426 | 3,414 |
| China | - | 978 | 1:1,396,785 | 38,325 |
| Scotland | 100% | 915 | 1:5,847 | 519 |
| Ghana | - | 562 | 1:48,018 | 2,599 |
| Bahamas | - | 499 | 1:800 | 203 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 482 | 1:21,642 | 1,977 |
| Papua New Guinea | 97% | 477 | 1:17,091 | 1,700 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 444 | 1:38,068 | 2,879 |
| Ireland | 100% | 433 | 1:10,724 | 733 |
| Kenya | 100% | 429 | 1:107,942 | 5,517 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 429 | 1:48,483 | 5,248 |
| Hong Kong | - | 401 | 1:19,333 | 2,070 |
| Germany | 100% | 342 | 1:282,684 | 3,774 |
| Israel | 99% | 334 | 1:25,158 | 2,155 |
| Colombia | 100% | 314 | 1:152,162 | 4,087 |
| Namibia | - | 313 | 1:7,681 | 996 |
| Suriname | 100% | 313 | 1:1,766 | 411 |
| Swaziland | - | 308 | 1:4,221 | 796 |
| Uganda | 99% | 304 | 1:134,727 | 5,484 |
| Liberia | 88% | 297 | 1:14,855 | 1,132 |
| Peru | 100% | 275 | 1:115,605 | 3,900 |
| Malaysia | 99% | 267 | 1:114,045 | 7,739 |
| Indonesia | - | 250 | 1:1,031,855 | 63,430 |
| Brazil | 100% | 242 | 1:885,273 | 24,171 |
| Thailand | 100% | 241 | 1:290,730 | 16,642 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 229 | 1:26,281 | 1,745 |
| Nigeria | 99% | 229 | 1:775,390 | 21,077 |
| Chile | 63% | 224 | 1:78,604 | 2,236 |
| France | 100% | 212 | 1:313,539 | 4,203 |
| Guyana | 100% | 183 | 1:4,171 | 792 |
| Ecuador | - | 173 | 1:102,468 | 2,483 |
| Tanzania | 95% | 148 | 1:356,678 | 11,602 |
| Fiji | - | 144 | 1:6,197 | 1,398 |
| Mexico | 100% | 144 | 1:862,114 | 7,513 |
| Singapore | 100% | 136 | 1:46,228 | 6,656 |
| South Korea | - | 136 | 1:40,768 | 3,008 |
| Vanuatu | - | 133 | 1:1,968 | 489 |
| Japan | - | 130 | 1:984,508 | 14,908 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 122 | 1:194,833 | 17,553 |
| Botswana | 100% | 121 | 1:18,053 | 2,233 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 114 | 1:5,096 | 638 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 112 | 1:12,156 | 1,719 |
| Egypt | - | 108 | 1:850,935 | 16,903 |
| Qatar | 100% | 102 | 1:23,231 | 3,339 |
| Belize | 100% | 100 | 1:3,543 | 781 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 95 | 1:86,458 | 2,919 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 93 | 1:19,819 | 976 |
| India | 100% | 92 | 1:13,205,195 | 360,400 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 88 | 1:54,181 | 2,308 |
| Jersey | 100% | 80 | 1:1,250 | 269 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 78 | 1:206,518 | 3,090 |
| Belgium | 100% | 76 | 1:151,185 | 4,257 |
| Portugal | - | 74 | 1:140,687 | 3,423 |
| Guam | - | 70 | 1:2,295 | 494 |
| Panama | 100% | 68 | 1:57,449 | 3,596 |
| Honduras | 100% | 66 | 1:133,598 | 3,783 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 63 | 1:1,742 | 356 |
| Bermuda | - | 60 | 1:1,080 | 237 |
| Kuwait | - | 57 | 1:66,408 | 5,422 |
| Spain | 100% | 57 | 1:816,315 | 7,958 |
| Aruba | - | 54 | 1:1,922 | 390 |
| El Salvador | - | 53 | 1:119,656 | 2,308 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 50 | 1:1,988 | 431 |
| Norway | 100% | 49 | 1:104,741 | 3,340 |
| Sweden | 100% | 49 | 1:201,182 | 6,996 |
| Denmark | - | 45 | 1:125,544 | 3,329 |
| Argentina | 63% | 44 | 1:972,119 | 5,142 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 100% | 44 | 1:789 | 165 |
| Micronesia | - | 43 | 1:2,477 | 350 |
| Barbados | - | 41 | 1:7,068 | 897 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 39 | 1:1,572 | 368 |
| Sudan | 100% | 36 | 1:1,050,194 | 2,907 |
| Italy | 100% | 34 | 1:1,795,944 | 12,956 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 32 | 1:27,221 | 1,520 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 30 | 1:238,400 | 14,853 |
| American Samoa | - | 29 | 1:1,926 | 312 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 27 | 1:2,734,356 | 59,996 |
| Russia | 80% | 26 | 1:5,547,450 | 26,027 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 22 | 1:982,296 | 26,157 |
| Afghanistan | 80% | 21 | 1:1,553,501 | 15,583 |
| Guernsey | - | 21 | 1:3,016 | 423 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 21 | 1:8,467 | 1,232 |
| Estonia | 100% | 20 | 1:65,769 | 3,350 |
| Greece | 100% | 20 | 1:546,727 | 7,050 |
| Iraq | - | 19 | 1:1,843,045 | 11,423 |
| Vietnam | - | 19 | 1:4,874,901 | 3,589 |
| Gibraltar | - | 18 | 1:1,897 | 362 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 18 | 1:197,239 | 2,551 |
| Finland | 81% | 17 | 1:322,540 | 4,487 |
| Isle of Man | 100% | 17 | 1:5,001 | 173 |
| Malta | - | 17 | 1:25,256 | 1,655 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 16 | 1:6,974 | 1,095 |
| Austria | 100% | 14 | 1:608,157 | 5,259 |
| Grenada | 100% | 13 | 1:8,317 | 1,152 |
| Iceland | - | 13 | 1:28,155 | 1,788 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 12 | 1:4,572 | 824 |
| Bolivia | - | 10 | 1:1,060,140 | 3,387 |
| Uruguay | - | 10 | 1:342,764 | 4,899 |
| Libya | - | 9 | 1:691,257 | 1,282 |
| Poland | 100% | 9 | 1:4,225,235 | 4,388 |
| Curaçao | - | 8 | 1:19,475 | 726 |
| Marshall Islands | 88% | 8 | 1:6,404 | 961 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 6 | 1:5,208 | 987 |
| Cook Islands | - | 6 | 1:3,026 | 469 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 6 | 1:9,111 | 1,173 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 5 | 1:2,651 | 523 |
| Dominica | - | 5 | 1:15,094 | 483 |
| Macau | - | 5 | 1:121,642 | 885 |
| Pakistan | - | 5 | 1:38,871,536 | 142,270 |
| Bulgaria | - | 4 | 1:1,747,598 | 14,265 |
| Czechia | 100% | 4 | 1:2,664,040 | 5,608 |
| Iran | - | 4 | 1:19,624,217 | 40,893 |
| Laos | - | 4 | 1:1,646,714 | 900 |
| Mauritius | - | 4 | 1:324,446 | 5,754 |
| Mongolia | - | 4 | 1:733,704 | 10,632 |
| Oman | - | 4 | 1:1,027,167 | 6,577 |
| Samoa | - | 4 | 1:48,798 | 712 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 4 | 1:1,772,166 | 913 |
| Cambodia | - | 3 | 1:5,424,443 | 41,412 |
| Croatia | 100% | 3 | 1:1,405,692 | 11,430 |
| Cuba | - | 3 | 1:3,835,517 | 8,849 |
| Ivory Coast | - | 3 | 1:7,691,978 | 82,363 |
| Monaco | 100% | 3 | 1:12,822 | 1,634 |
| Montserrat | - | 3 | 1:1,625 | 276 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 3 | 1:2,412,268 | 9,978 |
| Senegal | - | 3 | 1:4,860,452 | 20,187 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 2 | 1:4,821,472 | 33,780 |
| Georgia | - | 2 | 1:1,869,233 | 20,119 |
| Haiti | - | 2 | 1:5,363,476 | 32,317 |
| Hungary | 100% | 2 | 1:4,895,886 | 4,852 |
| Kazakhstan | - | 2 | 1:8,873,422 | 35,327 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 2 | 1:2,813,786 | 13,895 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 2 | 1:1,019,998 | 36,117 |
| Nepal | - | 2 | 1:14,243,676 | 86,069 |
| Romania | - | 2 | 1:10,025,988 | 47,037 |
| Ukraine | - | 2 | 1:22,749,954 | 22,291 |
| Albania | 100% | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| Algeria | - | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| Angola | - | 1 | 1:26,966,606 | 7,835 |
| Armenia | 100% | 1 | 1:2,918,753 | 14,910 |
| Bahrain | - | 1 | 1:1,348,673 | 7,854 |
| Bangladesh | - | 1 | 1:159,461,366 | 36,167 |
| Belarus | - | 1 | 1:9,482,384 | 20,892 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 1 | 1:3,524,458 | 8,651 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Burundi | - | 1 | 1:9,906,559 | 2,558 |
| Cape Verde | - | 1 | 1:529,151 | 6,361 |
| Djibouti | - | 1 | 1:915,664 | 2,132 |
| Gabon | - | 1 | 1:1,883,336 | 4,538 |
| Guinea | - | 1 | 1:11,858,647 | 7,978 |
| Guinea-Bissau | - | 1 | 1:1,728,218 | 422 |
| Latvia | - | 1 | 1:2,015,645 | 6,531 |
| Lithuania | - | 1 | 1:2,951,882 | 5,377 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 1 | 1:564,049 | 5,042 |
| Maldives | - | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Morocco | - | 1 | 1:34,348,636 | 18,260 |
| Norfolk Island | - | 1 | 1:2,324 | 291 |
| Rwanda | - | 1 | 1:11,371,433 | 4,615 |
| Serbia | - | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Slovakia | - | 1 | 1:5,310,063 | 9,949 |
| Tajikistan | - | 1 | 1:8,374,922 | 7,831 |
| Togo | - | 1 | 1:7,239,239 | 8,047 |
| Tunisia | - | 1 | 1:676,902 | 12,933 |
| Turkey | - | 1 | 1:77,801,709 | 91,051 |
| Turkmenistan | - | 1 | 1:5,472,870 | 3,925 |
| Wallis and Futuna | - | 1 | 1:13,529 | 157 |
Howard (452,218) may also be a surname.
Howard Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A male name. the use of this surname as a christian name is quite recent and there seems no particular reason for it except that it is the name of several noble families. The origin of the surname itself is doubtful; it seems sometimes to be from the name of the manorial officer, the hayward, and sometimes from a personal name Howard, Heward, or Hewerald which occurs in the 11th and 12th C. There is no Old English name corresponding to it, but E. Förstemann, Altdeutsches Namenbuch gives one example of a name Huguard, apparently a compound of Old German hugu 'heart’, ‘soul’, and vardu ‘ward’, protection’, which may be the source of Howard.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
From the surname, which, like Percy and Stanley, is very aristocratic in its connexions. ‘Howard, which is phonetically Old French Huard (“an osprey”), is sometimes also for Harward or Haward (Hereward)’, literally ‘the sword-guardian’, or ‘for Hayward’, Weekley, Romance of Names.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
A Teutonic name, meaning: Hedge guard.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Howard Forename Popularity
Howard Demographics
Average Male Howard Height
176.29 cm
Average male height (US):
175.3 cm
Sample size: 5,133 (2014)
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
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