Hughes

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: hyo͞oz, IPA^(key): /hjuːz/

  Homophone: hues

• Rhymes: -uːz

Proper noun

Hughes

1. A Welsh and English surname originating as a patronymic derived from the given name Hugh.
   • 2025 July 24, Josh Marshall, “Why Is Jeff Bezos Rakestomping the Post?”, in Talking Points Memo‎^[1], archived from the original on 31 July 2025:

     What’s happening at the Post now — I’m surprised more people haven’t drawn the comparison — is sort of comparable to the phantasmagoria of rake stomps which took place at The New Republic after Facebook billionaire Chris Hughes purchased it in 2012.

2. A Welsh surname; a variant of Howells.
3. A place in the United States:
   1. A minor city in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska.
   2. A city in St. Francis County, Arkansas.
   3. A ghost town in Hardin County, Iowa.
   4. A town in Bayfield County, Wisconsin.
4. A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, named after Billy Hughes.
5. A rural locality in Litchfield Municipality, Northern Territory, Australia.
6. An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Derived terms

• Hughes County
• Hughes-Drever experiment
• Hughesian
• Hughes-Stovin syndrome
• Hughes syndrome
• Hughesy

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Hughes is the 90^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 236,271 individuals. Hughes is most common among White (78.39%) and Black (16.13%) individuals.

Anagrams

• heughs, sheugh

French

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /yɡ/

Proper noun

Hughes m or f

1. a surname