Héng
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Héng is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From h and eng.
- NONorway1 in 19K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 76K
- USUnited States1 in 87K
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
- 206 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
3,819 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Heng 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)
From h and eng.
Sources 5
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Héng 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 | 3,819 | 1 in 87K | 4.2K | Heng | 31 |
| NO Norway | 282 | 1 in 19K | 282 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 73 | 1 in 76K | 73 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 63 | 1 in 3.4M | 63 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 58 | 1 in 145K | 58 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | — |
3,819 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Héng 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 Lao, v. bully; force, oppress. = NSUAYadj. dry, arid, desiccated, dried out..— WU © 1. v. dry UP (of bodies 2 v C09 v. seep. "ure of water). 2. v. lack. — Uu adj. dried 3 «ig v. depress. Eu: out, dreary; torrid. - ag adj. arid, _ ! = wao adj. dried out. - «Uo. dj. CIUN see quA, quu. dried out, withered. - mno. ij 'damp. AES a split, crack, break, nyhö:ngy ni ghost or spirit of ue WI hé:
as a wordLao-English Dictionary
In Lao, l. v. have water. 2. n. low lies $ k T TN 1. adji native (of population). 2: adj. Hime Mbere veter phere. tla (of produce)
as a wordLao-English Dictionary
In cdo, constant, regular, permanent, con-~ , : tinual, everywhere
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, roof beams, a clothes-horse, (okvast; to enlarge
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, to return, to repay, to give back to offer less
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 姮
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)
- Emperor Wen of Hanb. 203not in their usual nameemperor of the Han dynasty
- Emperor Muzong of Tangb. 795not in their usual nameemperor of the Tang Dynasty
- Emperor Zhenzong of Songb. 968CNnot in their usual nameChinese emperor from 997 to 1022
- Liu Hengb. 1430politician; Ming dynasty person CBDB = 198855
- Li Hengb. 1929CNChinese botanist, botanical collector and university teacher (1929-2023)
- Zhang Hengb. 1978CNChinese actress
- Xia Hengb. 1983CNCo-founder of XPeng Motors
- Cai Hengb. 1986CNChinese actor
- Huang HengMing dynasty person CBDB = 268537
- Liu HengMing dynasty person CBDB = 310724
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 Héng mean, and where does it come from?
- From h and eng. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
- Is Héng a male or female name?
- Héng is a male 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 Héng have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named Héng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled heng.
- Where is Héng most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Héng is densest in Norway — about 1 in 19 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Héng?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,819 people named Héng in 2010, about 1 in 87 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A9ngThe 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, “Héng”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.