Hèma
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hèma is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A class of elephants having the strength of one hundred million men.1.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 1.5M(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 4.4K
- SISlovenia1 in 46K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
2,312 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hema in EG Egypt, 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)
A class of elephants having the strength of one hundred million men.1
Sources 5
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
- Wiktionary
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hèma 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.
2,312 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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names; 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hèma mean, and where does it come from?
- A class of elephants having the strength of one hundred million men.1 Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India and Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H) and 3 other sources.
- Is Hèma a male or female name?
- Hèma is a female 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 Hèma have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Hèma, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hema.
- Where is Hèma most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hèma is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 4.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hèma?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,312 people named Hèma in 2020, about 1 in 144 thousand residents.
- How common is Hèma compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Hèma is the 274th most common given name of 107,792 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%A8maThe 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, “Hèma” — the 274th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.