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| HALES, HALE, HAIL | hal, moor | 21 |
| HALVOSE, HALVOSO | from the place Halvose in Manaccan; hal-fos which means moor ditch, or the plural form hal-fos-ow | 1 |
| HAMMETT, HAMMET | unknown meaning | 35 |
| HAMMILL, HAMMELL, HAMEL, HAMMIL | from personal name Hamil | 67 |
| HAMPTON | unknown meaning | 228 |
| HANCOCK | hen-gok, great grandfather, ancestor | 932 |
| HARE | hyr, long | 29 |
| HART | poss: horth, ram | 196 |
| HARVEY | poss: arva, to arm | 1498 |
| HAWKEY, HOCKEY | unknown meaning, but found predominately in Cornwall, earliest known occurance in Cornwall is 1402. When found elsewhere the lines usually trace back to Cornwall. There once was a surname TREHAWKEY, and there is a place called Trehawke. | 325 |
| HAYNE, HEYNES, HAIN, HAINES | poss: hen, old, HAYNE is the most common by far in 1881 | 131 |
| HEAL, HEALE | hel, hall | 31 |
| HEARN, HEARNE, HERN | hern, plural form of hern, iron | 81 |
| HELLEN, HELEN, HELLINGS, HELLYNS | unknown meaning | 90 |
| HELLYAR, HELLYER, HELLIER | poss: Cornish dialect hellyer, slater or from helgher, huntsman | 94 |
| HENDRA, HENDER | hen-dra, old place | 254 |
| HENDY, HENDEY | hen-dy, old house | 187 |
| HENDRY | hen-dre, old farm | 20 |
| HENNAH, HENNA, HENNEA, HANNAH | henna, older | 35 |
| HITCHENS, HICHENS | poss: variation of HUTCHENS | 537 |
| HOBBA, HOBBAH | hobba, riding horse | 50 |
| HOCKING, HOCKIN, HOCKEN, HOCKYN | unknown meaning, according to Roger Hocking, the first occurence of the surname in the area was around 1100 when a Fleming trader emigrated from Bruges or Ghent to Bideford Devon. Poss: derivred from Germanic hock meaning tall, hence Hock-yn; the tall one. | 2073 |
| HOLLOW | hallow, moors | 249 |
| HOLMAN | if found in Cornwall poss: hal-men, moorstone | 442 |
| HONEY | pet form of Hannibal? | 364 |
| HORNE, HORN | horn, iron | 23 |
| HOSKING, HOSKIN, HOSKEN, HOSKYN | heskyn, sedge-marsh, the surname HOSKINS is not a Cornish name, however when found in Cornwall it may actually be a variant of HOSKIN | 2210 |
| HOWELL | from personal name Howel | 19 |
| HUDDY | huth-dy, shady house | 112 |
| HUGH, HUGHES | from personal name Hugh | 131 |
| HUGHNANS | poss: Hugh-nans, Hugh's valley, or poss: ugh-nans, high valley, poss: an early variant of HUTHNANCE | 0 |
| HUNKIN, HUNKING, HUNKEN | unknown meaning | 243 |
| HURDEN, HURDON | from place name Hurdon in Altarnun parish | 37 |
| HUTCHENS, HUTCHINS, HUTCHING, HUTCHINGS | diminutive of personal name Hugh | 261 |
| HUTHNANCE | huth-nans, shady or sheltered valley, note this doesn't follow the normal word order, therefore is open to a degree of doubt. Likely named for the place-name Huthnance. | 30 |
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