Hind
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from a medieval nickname likening someone to a hind, especially for gentleness or timidity; also a form of Hine
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/haɪnd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hind is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country. In the United Arab Emirates it is the 98th most common given name.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 843(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 1.4K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 237 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 843 (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 a medieval nickname likening someone to a hind, especially for gentleness or timidity; also a form of Hine
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hind 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #106 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 843 | listed | Hind | 114 |
| SD Sudan | #241 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Hind | 34 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #431 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Hind | 110 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #98 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Hind | 120 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Hind | 64 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,346 | 1 in 21K | 2.3K | Hind | 59 |
| KW Kuwait | #242 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Hind | 54 |
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: the ma-etatcivil-authorized-given-names register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Hind 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, from OE hind ‘female deer’, perhaps ‘timid as a hind’; first attested Cristiana, Henry Hynde 1285 Ass (Essex)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
nickname for a gentle or timid person, from Middle English, Old English hind ‘female deer’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
variant of Hike ‘servant’, with excrescent -d.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, from ME, OE hind female deer. 2. var. of Hine; for the excpescent dental, cf. Diamond. Vars.: Hinde; Hynd (Scots). (Of 2): Hyndman (N Ireland). Patrs.: Hinds, Hynds, Hindes; Hindson (Northumb.).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, from ME, OE hitid female deer. 2. var. of Hine; for the excrescent dental, cf. Diamond. Hilliar see Hellier
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
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)
- Hind bint Utbahb. 576SAWife of Abu Sufyan
- Umm Salamab. 596SAnot in their usual nameMuhammad's sixth wife (c. 596 – 667/683)
- Al-Ḥurqahb. 600IQnot in their usual nameLakhmid-princess and arab poet
- Hind Nawfalb. 1860SYSyrian writer
- Hind bint Maktoum bin Juma Al-Maktoumb. 1962wife of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Ruler of Dubai
- Hind Kabawatb. 1974SYSyrian-Canadian politician
- Hind Laroussib. 1984NLMoroccan singer
- Hind Haririb. 1984SALebanese billionaire
- Princess Hind bint Hamad of Qatarb. 1984QAQatari Royal
- Hind Rajabb. 2018PSPalestinian child killed by Israeli military forces
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 65 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.3K | #1,555 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2K | #872 |
| MA Morocco | Liste des prénoms d'usage au Maroc — official authorized given-names list | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Hind mean, and where does it come from?
- from a medieval nickname likening someone to a hind, especially for gentleness or timidity; also a form of Hine Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is Hind a male or female name?
- Hind 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.
- How do you pronounce Hind?
- A machine transcription gives /haɪnd/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- In which country does Hind have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Hind in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hind.
- How common is the name Hind?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,346 people named Hind, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
- How common is Hind compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Hind is the 106th most common given name of 41,711 given names 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/hindThe 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, “Hind” — the 106th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.