The Hodge surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 52,920 people carried this name — #643 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 5,570 people counted. That is up 5% from 50,577 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Hodge surname
From a Middle English diminutive of the given name Roger. The substitution of H for R is common in English words derived from Norman French.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Hodge» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 136 people named Hodge.
43 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 4 départements, most often Guadeloupe.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
21 people named Hodge live in Switzerland.
They live in 3 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
32 people named Hodge is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Hodge in American newspapers,
1867–1911.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 504,903 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Hodge,
with a public archive behind them.
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Arthur Hodge d. 1749 · politician
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Jane Cram d. 1858
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Sarah Eliza Green d. 1911
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Blanche Hodge d. 1933
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Elizabeth Hodge d. 1818
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Edmund Hodge d. 1983
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Hodge.
- Hochard 179 · U.S. census
- Hochstetter 131 · U.S. census
- Hochstrasser 359 · U.S. census
- Hodan 150 · U.S. census
- Hode 107 · U.S. census
- Hodel 1,112 · U.S. census
- Hoebeke 141 · U.S. census
- Hoeffel 255 · U.S. census
- Hoeffler 198 · U.S. census
- Hoehn 3,499 · U.S. census
- Hoel 1,358 · U.S. census
- Hoeltzel 166 · U.S. census
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