Hima
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hima is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 50th most common surname. Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., weibliche Bildung zu einer friesischen Kurzform von.
- KRSouth Korea1 in 643as 함(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 10Kas Hamm
- NLNetherlands1 in 10Kas Ham
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 Hima itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Korea (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 425 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
80,659 named 함, 2015
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Albania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hamm in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 1 more, 함 in KR South Korea and Ham in 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)
weibl. Vom., weibliche Bildung zu einer friesischen Kurzform von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hima 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #50 | 80,659as 함 | 1 in 643 | 86K | 함 | 137 |
| US United States | #726 | 26,726as Hamm | 1 in 12K | 27K | Hamm | 425 |
| DE Germany | #789 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Hamm | 145 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 46K | listed | Hima | 58 |
| GB United Kingdom | #979 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 4 | Hamm | 177 |
| CA Canada | #672 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 1 | Hamm | 145 |
| NL Netherlands | #139 | 1,705as Ham | 1 in 10K | 1.7K | Ham | 104 |
| AL Albania | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 796 | — | — |
80,659 people counted by KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants, 2015. 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; KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants; KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hima 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.
snow. winter; night.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In Indonesian, syllabic abbreviation of himpunan mahasiswa (“student association”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tvx, five
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bbc, large white marine shellfish from which armbands for the upper arm are made (probably < )
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In ch, clam – various bivalve mollusks (venus mercenaria)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Gabriella Himab. 1955HUHungarian translator
- Yacine Himab. 1984DZAlgerian association football player
- Moustapha Himab. 1992NENigerien boxer
- Masha Himamusician
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)
Attested in 34 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 643 | #16,764 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 25 | #16,764 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 6 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2023 | 1 | #2,333 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hima mean?
- Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., weibliche Bildung zu einer friesischen Kurzform von
- Is Hima a male or female name?
- Hima 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 Hima have the most bearers?
- In South Korea, the national register counted about 81 thousand people named 함, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hima?
- In South Korea, the national register counted 80,659 people named 함 in 2015, about 1 in 643 residents.
- How common is Hima compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Hima is the 50th most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/himaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Hima” — the 50th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.