Meaning & origin
Hou’s family of names
In Khmer usage, Hou as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of ហូ. In English usage, Hou as a surname was borrowed from the Chinese form 侯.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Hou
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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