Hee

Name: Hee: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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given name · Latin script

Meaning: habitational name from any of several farmsteads in the county of Hedmark named He, ft'om Old Norse heed ‘hill’, ‘mound’

Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

Pronunciation:

Hee is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.

MYMalaysia≈1 in 5.2K(inferred from the name graph)
KRSouth Korea≈1 in 13K
SESweden1 in 25K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.

: Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
Record sources: 253 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

habitational name from any of several farmsteads in the county of Hedmark named He, ft'om Old Norse heed ‘hill’, ‘mound’.

Cited for this meaning 1

Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Hee 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 Hee is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
PK Pakistan	—	≈21,000 est.	≈1 in 11K	—	Hee	5
MY Malaysia	—	≈6,200 est.	≈1 in 5.2K	—	Hee	46
KR South Korea	#563	≈4,100 est.	≈1 in 13K	—	Hee	225
US United States	—	2,843	1 in 117K	2K	Hee	253
GB United Kingdom	—	≈1,200 est.	≈1 in 55K	—	Hee	48
SG Singapore	—	≈530 est.	≈1 in 12K	—	Hee	33
SE Sweden	—	416	1 in 25K	416	—	5

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; 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

Hee is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

English given name13 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Australia, Malaysia, United Kingdom
Languages: English, German, Dutch
Also written Hée, Heé, Héé, Hëê, Hëë
Malay given name6 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, United States
Languages: Malay, Indonesian
Also written Héé, Hëë, Héę, Hęë
a separate name3 spellings in the group
Also written Heé, Hée
Spanish given name17 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Hée, Heé, Hëë, Héé, Hèe
French given name8 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, United States, Malaysia, Belgium
Also written Hée, Héé, Héè, Hèè, Hęę
Hindi given name5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, India, Singapore
Languages: Hindi, Urdu
Also written Heé, Hèé, Hée

64 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

Hee 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 Danish, habitational name from any of several places so named from a word meaning ‘shining’, ‘clear’, with reference to a river.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Danish, habitational name from the common place name ten Heede, meaning ‘on the heath’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, An expression of laughter.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cdo, made thin by sieing: Seke( FP) drumsticks, (pah-gang-git). eta to arouse, to stir up, to cheer
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, to exterminate, to fall upon and slay 4 Ez to lie down, to cease, to hush
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect

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

Sŏ Hŭib. 942KPnot in their usual nameKorean politician and diplomat (942 - 998)
Hwang Huib. 1363not in their usual nameprime minister of the Joseon dynasty (1363 - 1452 )
Wang Huib. 1632CNnot in their usual nameChinese painter (1632-1717)
Gojong of the Korean Empireb. 1852KRnot in their usual name26th king of Joseon, first emperor of the Korean Empire (1852–1919)
Hwang Heeb. 1967KRSouth Korean politician
Hee Ohb. 1969KRKorean mathematician
Yvonne Yung Hee Bormannb. 1981DEGerman actress
Choi Heeb. 1986KRSouth Korean television presenter
Ju Huib. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean handball player
Perry Ngb. 1996GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association 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).

How to address them

FormalDear Colleague,

InformalHello,

Evidence

35 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Hee
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020	2020	1.6K	#17,113
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000	2000	1.2K	#20,543
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010	2010	1.2K	#22,281
SE Sweden	Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)	—	6	#51,076
US United States	wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)	—	—	—

Reference works 5

Dictionary of American Family Names
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Wikipedia given-name tokens
Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Hee mean, and where does it come from?: habitational name from any of several farmsteads in the county of Hedmark named He, ft'om Old Norse heed ‘hill’, ‘mound’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
Is Hee a male or female name?: Hee is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Finland (DVV) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB). We don't publish a percentage split.
In which country does Hee have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Hee in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hee.
How common is the name Hee?: In the United States, the national register counted 2,843 people named Hee in 2020, about 1 in 117 thousand residents.
How common is Hee compared with other names?: In South Korea, Hee is the 563rd most common given name of 67,037 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, “Hee” — the 563rd most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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