Hien

given name · Vietnamese · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Hien is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 24th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Möglicherweise zu mhd.

rarermore common
  • VNVietnam1 in 159◐
  • MYMalaysia1 in 64K
  • USUnited States1 in 70K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈5.2K ●

across 8 countries

Sources
192 ●

290K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 12K ◐

Iceland

Spellings & scripts●

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hiền in HK Hong Kong.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

recorded in German

Möglicherweise zu mhd. hiune 'Riese'; 340 Belege. Auch Patronym aus einer Kurzform mit i-Stammvokal denkbar.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Hien is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VN Vietnam#24536,396264K rec.—listedHien192
US United States—4,76321K rec.1 in 70K4.8KHien144
CA Canada—1,1641.2K rec.——Hien35
MY Malaysia—1,008977 rec.——Hien27
GB United Kingdom—598964 rec.——Hien26
SE Sweden—231△34 rec.1 in 44K231—9
SG Singapore—141186 rec.——Hien15
ID Indonesia—10090 rec.——Hien37
RU Russia—82121 rec.——Hien14
MO Macao#970226 rec.——Hien2
NL Netherlands—5666 rec.1 in 309K56Hien13
NZ New Zealand—5255 rec.——Hien8

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Vietnamese366K78%
  • English56K12%
  • 11K2%
  • French (Côte d’Ivoire)6K1%
  • Spanish5.2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Vietnamese366,45578%
English55,52512%
11,0422%
French (Côte d’Ivoire)5,9871%
Spanish5,2021%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Hien is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name102K records spelled Hien31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom, China

    Also written Hiền, Hiển, Hiên, Hiến, Hiën

  • English given name86K records spelled Hien21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Hiền, Hiển, Hiện, Hiên, Hiến

  • French given name37K records spelled Hien10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso

    Also written Hiền, Hiên, Hiển, Hién, Hiến

  • a separate given name12K records spelled Hien11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, China

    Also written Hiền, Hiển, Hiên, Hieṅ, Hiêǹ

  • Spanish given name7.4K records spelled Hien14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, El Salvador, Chile, Guatemala

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Hiền, Hiển, Hiên, Hiến, Hièn

  • Czech given name2.2K records spelled Hien12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Polish, Slovak

    Also written Hiền, Hiên, Hién, Hiến, Hiển

  • Thai given name2.1K records spelled Hien11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Thailand, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Haien, Hiền, ไฮเอน, Hiển, Hiên

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Hien is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In enm, alternative form of hyen (“to move quickly”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Luxembourgish, stressed third-person masculine singular, nominative and accusative: he, him

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Dutch, a hamlet in Neder-Betuwe, Gelderland, Netherlands

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Finnish, genitive singular of hiki

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0102030198019902000201030 · 1984

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Hien in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1976–2016
Yearrecords
19766
19776
197911
19809
198120
198216
198314
198430
198520
198612
198715
198817
198912
199014
199118
199216
199315
199410
199515
199611
19979
199810
199912
20007
20017
200212
200310
20047
20059
20068
20086
20097
20105
20115
20167

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 35 years between 1976–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

500100015002000Cao Xian, b. 541Li Xian, b. 653Wang Xian, b. 1721Ho Yin, b. 1908Patrick Tse Yin, b. 1936Sun Xianzhong, b. 1957Chen Xian, b. 1997
  • Cao Xianb. 541not in their usual nameSui dynasty person CBDB = 94476
  • Li Xianb. 653not in their usual nameTang Dynasty crown prince
  • Wang Xianb. 1721not in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB=65769
  • Ho Yinb. 1908PTnot in their usual namePortuguese politician
  • Patrick Tse Yinb. 1936CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor (1936–2026)
  • Sun Xianzhongb. 1957CNnot in their usual nameChinese jurist
  • Chen Xianb. 1997CNnot in their usual nameChinese Go player
  • Pang Xiannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 318423
  • Zhang Xiannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB=35498
  • Yao Xiannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 310505

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 36 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Hien
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CI Côte d’Ivoirenomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies—15K#43
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.8K#2,666
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.1K#2,666
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020257#79,808
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—231#4,729
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010203#90,853
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000198#87,348
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—176#3,768
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—152#5,789
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—105#5,036
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—82#8,741
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198168—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 146 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hien?
We estimate roughly 5.2 thousand people bear Hien (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Hien have the most bearers?
Hien is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled hien.
How common is Hien compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Hien is the 24th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
Is Hien a male or female name?
Hien is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Hien mean?
Recorded meaning: Möglicherweise zu mhd.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hien” — the 24th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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