Hieu
given name · Vietnamese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hieu is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 29th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Pious.
- VNVietnam1 in 184◐
- USUnited States1 in 68K
- ISIceland1 in 13K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈5.3K ●
- Sources
- 199 ●
- 1 in 13K ◐
across 8 countries
266K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hiếu in IT Italy, 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●
Pious
Sources 1
- Vietnamese Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 37)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #29 | 463,856 | 246K rec. | — | listed | Hieu | 199 |
| US United States | — | 4,882 | 18K rec. | 1 in 68K | 4.9K | Hieu | 139 |
| CA Canada | — | 781 | 808 rec. | — | 6 | Hieu | 35 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 512 | 563 rec. | — | — | Hieu | 33 |
| SE Sweden | — | 160△ | 30 rec. | 1 in 64K | 160 | Hieu | 10 |
| RU Russia | — | 95 | 126 rec. | — | — | Hieu | 13 |
| SG Singapore | — | 69 | 91 rec. | — | — | Hieu | 14 |
| FI Finland | — | 58△ | 17 rec. | 1 in 96K | 205 | — | 6 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 49 | 84 rec. | — | — | Hieu | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | 44 | 44 rec. | — | 154 | Hieu | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 40 | 47 rec. | 1 in 432K | 40 | Hieu | 14 |
| PL Poland | — | 35 | — | 1 in 1.1M | 35 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Vietnamese326K80%
- English44K11%
- 13K3%
- Spanish5K1%
- French1.7K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnamese | 325,951 | 80% |
| English | 43,535 | 11% |
| 13,000 | 3% | |
| Spanish | 5,048 | 1% |
| French | 1,707 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1979 | 11 |
| 1980 | 13 |
| 1981 | 19 |
| 1982 | 23 |
| 1983 | 30 |
| 1984 | 38 |
| 1985 | 37 |
| 1986 | 29 |
| 1987 | 32 |
| 1988 | 32 |
| 1989 | 33 |
| 1990 | 19 |
| 1991 | 26 |
| 1992 | 38 |
| 1993 | 33 |
| 1994 | 31 |
| 1995 | 21 |
| 1996 | 19 |
| 1997 | 29 |
| 1998 | 13 |
| 1999 | 24 |
| 2000 | 19 |
| 2001 | 20 |
| 2002 | 13 |
| 2003 | 20 |
| 2004 | 11 |
| 2005 | 13 |
| 2006 | 16 |
| 2007 | 11 |
| 2008 | 16 |
| 2009 | 16 |
| 2010 | 9 |
| 2011 | 16 |
| 2012 | 9 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2014 | 16 |
| 2015 | 10 |
| 2016 | 9 |
| 2017 | 9 |
| 2018 | 9 |
| 2020 | 7 |
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2024 | 6 |
| 2025 | 9 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 46 years between 1976–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Giuse Nguyễn Phụng Hiểub. 1921Roman Catholic bishop
- Nguyễn Văn Hiệub. 1938VNVietnamese physicist and theoretical physicist
- Nguyễn Huy Hiệub. 1947VNNorth Vietnamese general
- Quang H. Vuongb. 1953USnot in their usual nameeconomist
- Lê Văn Hiếub. 1954AUformer Australian governor of Vietnamese origin
- Hieu Nguyenb. 2000USresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-5154-0125)
- Hieu Hofilm producer
- Hieu Ha Minhresearcher
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 27 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.9K | #3,421 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #3,421 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 205 | #3,420 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 160 | #6,147 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 154 | #5,756 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 62 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 58 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 48 | #9,023 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 46 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 45 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 40 | #7,666 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 38 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 128 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hieu?
- We estimate roughly 5.3 thousand people bear Hieu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Hieu have the most bearers?
- Hieu is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled hieu.
- How common is Hieu compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Hieu is the 29th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
- Is Hieu a male or female name?
- Hieu is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Hieu mean?
- Recorded meaning: Pious
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About this data
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, “Hieu” — the 29th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.