Hié
surname · Latin script
Hié is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from the personal name Ille, a vernacular form of Aegidius (see Giles, and compare Illig).
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.6M(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2.5M
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.5M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 147 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6M (inferred from the name graph)
131 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hie in CI Côte d’Ivoire, FR France, US United States and 2 more.
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 the personal name Ille, a vernacular form of Aegidius (see Giles, and compare Illig).
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Hié is found
(measured from records)Hié 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 | 131 | 1 in 2.5M | 131 | Hie | 4 |
| FR France | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | 54 | Hie | 147 |
| NL Netherlands | 5 | 1 in 3.5M | 5 | — | — |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | — | 1.7K | Hie | 4 |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Hie | 8 |
| BF Burkina Faso | — | — | — | Hie | 3 |
131 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: nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)Hié 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 men, to rise, arise, to start up, to come from, to move away. Ldlo hijéngoi, the time about 9 am. I hijéni na, he came from. Hijéma kuna hai-hti, in the resurrec- tion of the dead. Gba- maile a hije kpéléi ji ma = for from hence- forth
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In cdo, what is the cause or matter, (chitconnected with, belonging to
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, to lead by the hand; to carry, to leave, to connect
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, quick perception, wise, clever, quick witted
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, a fragrant species of marshy orchid
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, herculean in strength, titanic, (bé
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
(measured from records)- Simone Hiéb. 1914DZAlbert Camus's first wife
- Vanessa Hiéb. 1974FRFrench illustrator
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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hié mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Ille, a vernacular form of Aegidius (see Giles, and compare Illig). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hié?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 131 people named Hié, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hie. After it come France and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Hié?
- In the United States, the national register counted 131 people named Hié in 2010, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Hié?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hi%C3%A9The 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, “Hié”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.