Hîm
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hîm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English him, from Old English him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai (“to this, to this one”).
- USUnited States1 in 111K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 250K
- SESweden1 in 567K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- 1 in 111K (inferred from the name graph)
3,006 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Him in US United States.
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)
- Middle Englishhim(measured from records)
- Old Englishhim(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*himmai“to this“to this, to this one”(measured from records)
From Middle English him, from Old English him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai (“to this, to this one”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian him (“him”), West Frisian him (“him”), Sylt North Frisian ham, höm (“him”), Dutch hem (“him”), German Low German hum, hüm, em (“him”), German ihm (“him”, dative).
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hîm 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,006 | 1 in 111K | 2.9K | Him | 21 |
| NL Netherlands | 69 | 1 in 250K | 69 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 18 | 1 in 567K | 18 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 8 | 1 in 696K | 41 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 7 | 1 in 838K | 7 | — | — |
3,006 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hîm is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Kurdish, Foundation, essence, root, the unshakeable support of something
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- King Ping of Chub. 550not in their usual nameKing of Chu from 528 BC to 516 BC
- Xiong Xilingb. 1870CNnot in their usual namePremier of the Republic of China (1870–1937)
- Xiong Shilib. 1885CNnot in their usual nameChinese philosopher
- Gu Longb. 1938TWnot in their usual nameHong Kong born Taiwanese writer (1938–1985)
- Xiong Weipingb. 1956CNnot in their usual nameChinese businessman (mineral engineering)
- Hung Yan-yanb. 1962CNnot in their usual nameactor
- Xiong Nib. 1974CNnot in their usual nameChinese sport diver
- Shiung Fengb. 1978JPnot in their usual nameTaiwanese go player
- Xiong Zhao Zhongb. 1982CNnot in their usual nameboxer
- Jeffery Xiongb. 2000USnot in their usual nameAmerican chess 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(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hîm mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English him, from Old English him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai (“to this, to this one”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Hîm have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Hîm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled him.
- Where is Hîm most common?
- Hîm is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 111 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hîm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,006 people named Hîm in 2020, about 1 in 111 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%AEmThe 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, “Hîm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.