Hĩu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hĩu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Malay hiu (Standard yu), from Proto-Malayic *hiu, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *hiu, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *hiu, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qihu, from Proto-Austronesian *qiSu.
- NLNetherlands1 in 262K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 351K
- SESweden1 in 444K
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
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 262K (inferred from the name graph)
293 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hiu in US United States, NL Netherlands.
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)
- MalayhiuStandard yu(measured from records)
- Proto-Malayic*hiu(measured from records)
- Proto-Malayo-Chamic*hiu(measured from records)
- Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan*hiu(measured from records)
- Proto-Austronesian*qiSu(measured from records)
From Malay hiu (Standard yu), from Proto-Malayic *hiu, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *hiu, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *hiu, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qihu, from Proto-Austronesian *qiSu.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hĩu 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 | 293 | 1 in 1.1M | 237 | Hiu | 20 |
| NL Netherlands | 66 | 1 in 262K | 53 | Hiu | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 23 | 1 in 444K | 23 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
293 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 Hĩu mean, and where does it come from?
- From Malay hiu (Standard yu), from Proto-Malayic *hiu, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *hiu, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *hiu, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qihu, from Proto-Austronesian *qiSu. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Hĩu a male or female name?
- Hĩu 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 Hĩu have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 293 people named Hĩu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hiu.
- Where is Hĩu most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hĩu is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 262 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hĩu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 293 people named Hĩu in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C4%A9uThe 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, “Hĩu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.