High
loc · Latin script
Meaning: (i) person who lives on a high place, e.g (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
High is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. High is also written 학교 in Korean (Hangul).
- USUnited States1 in 2.8M(measured from records)
- INIndia≈1 in 4.1M
- PLPoland≈1 in 4.4M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than High itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 388 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 804K (inferred from the name graph)
≈350 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
High in other scripts: Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)Locally spelled 학교 in KR South Korea.
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)(i) person who lives on a high place, e.g. a hilltop; (ii) medieval nickname for a tall man
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)High 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 | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | 15 | — | 22 |
| US United States | 119 | 1 in 2.8M | 14K | High | 388 |
| KR South Korea | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | 학교 | 8 |
| PL Poland | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 4.4M | 6 | — | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 804K | — | High | 36 |
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 2010; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)High 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, kaha, kihama fetén, to be high, guhango, sdki nga guhél; on high, in the space above our heads, ngéléya; high bed, n., beli
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
nickname for a tall man, from Middle English hegh, hie ‘high’, ‘tali’. Old English heah (compare Hay 2), or a topographic name for a dweller on a hilltop or high place, from the same word used in a topographical sense. This second use is supported by early forms such as Richard atte High (Sussex 1332).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, man, from ME hegh, hie high, tall (OE heah \ see also Hay 2). 2. topographic name for a dweller on a hilltop or high place, from the same word used in a topographical sense. This second use is supported by early forms such as Richard atte High (Sussex 1332). Vars.: Highe, Hie; Highman.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, high (intoxicated with a drug other than alcohol)
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)- Hugh Highb. 1887USAmerican baseball player (1887–1962)
- Andy Highb. 1897USAmerican baseball player (1897-1981)
- Johnny Highb. 1957USAmerican basketball player (1957–1987)
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name High come from?
- (i) person who lives on a high place, e.g. a hilltop; (ii) medieval nickname for a tall man Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What does the name High mean?
- Recorded meaning: (i) person who lives on a high place, e.g.
- Which countries have the most people named High?
- Mondonomo estimates about 354 people named High in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, South Korea, Poland and New Zealand; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name High?
- In the United States, the national register counted 119 people named High in 2020, about 1 in 2.8 million 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/highThe 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, “High” — ranked 94961st in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.