Hëctor
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hëctor is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 56th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Hector (“in Greek and Roman mythology, a character in Homer’s Iliad who is the greatest warrior of Troy”), from Late Middle English Hector (“warrior with the qualities of Hector”), from Latin Hec.
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 120(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 130
- UYUruguay≈1 in 200
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hëctor itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #226 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 506 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 123 (inferred from the name graph)
≈560,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Hector in AR Argentina, US United States, MX Mexico and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Late Middle EnglishHector“warrior with the qualities of Hector”(measured from records)
- Latin Hectōror(measured from records)
- Latin Hectōr rootἕκτωρhéktōr“holding fast”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*seǵʰ-“to hold; to overpower”(measured from records)
From Hector (“in Greek and Roman mythology, a character in Homer’s Iliad who is the greatest warrior of Troy”), from Late Middle English Hector (“warrior with the qualities of Hector”), from Latin Hectōr or Ancient Greek Ἕκτωρ (Héktōr), from ἕκτωρ (héktōr, “holding fast”), from ἔχειν (ékhein), present active infinitive of ἔχω (ékhō, “to have, own, possess; to hold”), from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to hold; to overpower”). The verb is derived from the noun.
Cited for this meaning 8
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hëctor counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #56 | ≈560,000 est. | ≈1 in 232 | 2.2K | Hector | 281 |
| AR Argentina | #26 | ≈340,000 est. | ≈1 in 133 | 236 | Hector | 164 |
| US United States | #321 | 168,413 | 1 in 2K | 168K | Hector | 506 |
| CO Colombia | #94 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 337 | 118 | Hector | 170 |
| VE Venezuela | #52 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 258 | — | Hector | 115 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #7 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 123 | 7 | Hector | 108 |
| UY Uruguay | #14 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 204 | 1 | Hector | 83 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012); SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hëctor mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hector (“in Greek and Roman mythology, a character in Homer’s Iliad who is the greatest warrior of Troy”), from Late Middle English Hector (“warrior with the qualities of Hector”), from Latin Hec… Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 6 other sources.
- Is Hëctor a male or female name?
- Hëctor 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.
- In which country does Hëctor have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 564 thousand people named Hëctor in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hector.
- How common is the name Hëctor?
- In the United States, the national register counted 168,413 people named Hëctor in 2020, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Hëctor compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Hëctor is the 56th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%ABctorThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Hëctor” — the 56th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.