Him
given name · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name from Old High German horo ‘swamp’, ‘mire’, or from Middle High German horn ‘horn (of land)’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- India (India Names Dataset): listed as female
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/əm/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Him is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 6.3Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 100Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 111K
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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Him
- English:/əm/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Old High Germanhoro(measured from records)
- Middle High Germanhorn(measured from records)
topographic name from Old High German horo ‘swamp’, ‘mire’, or from Middle High German horn ‘horn (of land)’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Him 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 323K | 2 | Him | 21 |
| US United States | — | 3,006 | 1 in 111K | 2.9K | Him | 163 |
| HK Hong Kong | #743 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Him | 41 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 286K | listed | — | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Him | 27 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 69 | 1 in 250K | 69 | Him | 7 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 260K | — | Him | 22 |
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; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)Him 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 English, A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, hgi, ngié. For him, hgi-we. Iwaa-ngié, He came to him
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In kr, off. kdrmuma, s. one who is death- like, or about to die. kdrngin, v. is only used with helem or pdtap and then means
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
In kr, on the road. 2) to elapse , as said of time ; e. g. kdntdge titto kotsla ruskin
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
In enm, Third-person singular masculine pronoun indicating a grammatical object: him.
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Zhang Yub. 1982CNnot in their usual nameactor from China (1982- )
- Wang Xinb. 1985CNnot in their usual nameChinese badminton player
- Wang Xinb. 1992CNnot in their usual nameChinese diver
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
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Him mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name from Old High German horo ‘swamp’, ‘mire’, or from Middle High German horn ‘horn (of land)’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Him?
- In English /əm/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Him a male or female name?
- Him is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; India (India Names Dataset): listed as female. We don't publish a percentage split.
- Which countries have the most people named Him?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.5 thousand people named Him in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled him. After it come United States, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Him?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,006 people named Him in 2020, about 1 in 111 thousand residents.
- How common is Him compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Him is the 743rd most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Him?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/himThe 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, “Him” — the 743rd most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.