Hin
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hin is a given name, most frequently recorded in Thailand. In Hong Kong it is the 36th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Chinese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A former Hebrew liquid measure of volume (about 3.8 L).
- HKHong Kong1 in 775◐
- THThailand1 in 833
- MYMalaysia1 in 4.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈5.5K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 131 ●
- 1 in 30K ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
52K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
10 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 힌 in KR South Korea, หิน in TH Thailand and ฮันส์ in SE Sweden.
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●
A former Hebrew liquid measure of volume (about 3.8 L).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #807 | 33,668 | 12K rec. | — | #756,681 | หิน | 112 |
| MY Malaysia | #329 | 13,927 | 16K rec. | — | — | Hin | 61 |
| HK Hong Kong | #36 | 4,799 | 3.8K rec. | — | — | Hin | 82 |
| US United States | — | 4,520 | 12K rec. | 1 in 74K | 36K | Hin | 131 |
| TW Taiwan | — | 3,626 | 31 rec. | — | — | Hin | 39 |
| AU Australia | — | 2,432 | 2.6K rec. | — | 1 | Hin | 82 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,211 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Hin | 49 |
| SG Singapore | #586 | 917 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Hin | 51 |
| CN China | — | 578 | 358 rec. | — | — | Hin | 42 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 350 | 394 rec. | — | — | Hin | 60 |
| SE Sweden | — | 341△ | 13 rec. | 1 in 30K | 341 | ฮันส์ | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | 285 | 427 rec. | — | 1 | Hin | 40 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English14K27%
- Chinese9.2K18%
- Malay8.5K17%
- Hindi4.5K9%
- Korean3.5K7%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 13,537 | 27% |
| Chinese | 9,192 | 18% |
| Malay | 8,487 | 17% |
| Hindi | 4,508 | 9% |
| Korean | 3,453 | 7% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Hin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, narrow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cdo, coll, hing HE one who rules by imperial in- : vestiture
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In German, there
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In German, there, thither; denotes direction towards a place that is not the speaker’s current location.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, inflection of hinn (“that”):
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●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 6 |
| 1901 | 6 |
| 1911 | 3 |
| 1921 | 5 |
| 1931 | 4 |
| 1941 | 5 |
| 1951 | 7 |
| 1961 | 4 |
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1981 | 13 |
| 1991 | 15 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Visakha Gunadharmab. 1907IDnot in their usual nameIndonesian Chinese journalist, community leader, and Buddhist figure
- Zhang Yub. 1982CNnot in their usual nameactor from China (1982- )
- Wang Xinb. 1985CNnot in their usual nameChinese badminton player
- Tao Xinb. 1988CNnot in their usual nameChinese Go player
- Liu Xinb. 1990CNnot in their usual namefemale badminton player
- Li Xinb. 1991CNnot in their usual namefootballer
- He Xinb. 1991CNnot in their usual nameChinese Go player
- Wang Xinb. 1992CNnot in their usual nameChinese diver
- Wang Xinb. 1992CNnot in their usual nameChinese sport cyclist
- Yang Xinb. 1994CNnot in their usual nameassociation football player
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 30 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 3
- 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)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 87 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hin?
- We estimate roughly 5.5 thousand people bear Hin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Hin have the most bearers?
- Hin is most frequently recorded in Thailand, where it is most often spelled หิน.
- How common is Hin compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Hin is the 807th most common given name of 422,526 given names recorded there.
- Is Hin a male or female name?
- Hin 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 Hin mean?
- Recorded meaning: A former Hebrew liquid measure of volume (about 3.8 L).
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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, “Hin” — the 807th most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.