Hī

Name: Hī: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
License: https://mondonomo.ai/tos#rights

given name · Latin script

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

Hī is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: American English. First recorded reference is to speech of a Kansas Indian (1862); originally to attract attention, probably a variant of Middle English hey, hy (circa 1475).

rarermore common

DZAlgeria≈1 in 33K(inferred from the name graph)
TNTunisia≈1 in 65K
MAMorocco≈1 in 82K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
Record sources: 27 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hï in DZ Algeria, Hî in TN Tunisia and H'I in MA Morocco.

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

American English. First recorded reference is to speech of a Kansas Indian (1862); originally to attract attention, probably a variant of Middle English hey, hy (circa 1475). Also an exclamation to call attention. See hey.

Cited for this meaning 6

Dictionary of American Family Names
Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
Wiktionary
Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Hī 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.

Where Hī is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
DZ Algeria	#703	≈1,300 est.	≈1 in 33K	—	Hï	9
US United States	—	635	1 in 524K	422	—	20
MA Morocco	—	≈440 est.	≈1 in 82K	—	H'I	9
TN Tunisia	—	≈180 est.	≈1 in 65K	—	Hî	11
SE Sweden	—	75	1 in 136K	75	—	—

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 names spelled this way

Hī is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Chinese given name7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Also written Hi, Hî, Hï, Hì, Hí
English given name27 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Russia, United Kingdom, Canada
Languages: English, Dutch, German
Also written Hi, Hî, Hï, Hí, Hį
Bulgarian name27 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Uzbekistan
Also written Хи, Hi, Hï, Хй, Khí
Hindi given name43 spellings in the group
Most recorded in India, Malaysia, United States, Bangladesh
Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu
Also written Hai, Hui, হুই, হাই, Hoi
a separate name17 spellings in the group
Also written Hi, Hï, Hí, Hî, Hį

8 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

Hī is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of ひい
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kix, To exchange
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hawaiian, flow; hiss
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In xbr, to cry
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nmy, eight
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, grieķu alfabēta divdesmit otrais burts (Χ, χ)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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.

Evidence

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Hī under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Hī mean, and where does it come from?: American English. First recorded reference is to speech of a Kansas Indian (1862); originally to attract attention, probably a variant of Middle English hey, hy (circa 1475). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 4 other sources.
Is Hī a male or female name?: Hī 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.
In which country does Hī have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Hī in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hï.
How common is the name Hī?: In the United States, the national register counted 635 people named Hī in 2020, about 1 in 524 thousand residents.
How common is Hī compared with other names?: In Algeria, Hī is the 703rd most common given name of 27,215 given names recorded there.

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The 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 2026-10-13 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, “Hī” — the 703rd most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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