Hain
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from Hayne, from the medieval personal name Hain, from a nickname meaning wretch, from Middle High German hagen, or from German Hagin
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hain is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 108K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 120K
- SISlovenia1 in 124K
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
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 108K (inferred from the name graph)
2,776 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Middle High Germanhagen(measured from records)
- GermanHagin(measured from records)
from Hayne, from the medieval personal name Hain, from a nickname meaning wretch, from Middle High German hagen, or from German Hagin
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hain is read(measured from records)
Hain is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English64%
from Hayne, from the medieval personal name Hain, from a nickname meaning wretch, from Middle High German hagen, or from German Hagin
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
To hedge or fence in; inclose; protect by hedging
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German22%
Toponymic surname from a place/clearing name (Hain/Hayn). Variants in the record: Hain(n), Hayn(n), vom Hoyne, Hayn, Hain, Hager; from settlement/field names.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Toponymic surname; derived from a place name or dwelling/landscape feature. Bearer count: 3154.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
grove; woods; small forest
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Patronymisch; teils auch Wohnstätten-/Herkunftsnamen zu mhd. hain 'Dornbusch, Einfriedung' bzw. zu Großenhain/Hain.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hain 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 | 2,776 | 1 in 120K | 2.8K | Hain | 44 |
| PL Poland | 353 | 1 in 108K | 184 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 192 | 1 in 1.1M | 192 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 50 | 1 in 214K | 50 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 50 | 1 in 168K | 50 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 27 | 1 in 206K | 27 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 17 | 1 in 124K | 17 | — | — |
2,776 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ludwig Hainb. 1781DEGerman editor (1781-1836)
- Mathilde Hainb. 1901DEGerman professor (1901–1983)
- Peter Hainb. 1950GBBritish politician (born 1950)
- Uwe Hainb. 1955DEGerman footballer (1955–)
- Kit Hainb. 1956GBBritish singer and guitarist
- Jeanette Hainb. 1969DEGerman actress and screen writer
- Scott Hainb. 1970USAmerican murderer (1970-2003)
- Mathias Hainb. 1972DEGerman footballer
- Kali Hainb. 1986DEGerman actress
- Stephan Hainb. 1988DEGerman footballer
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 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.8K | #11,365 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.7K | #10,779 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.5K | #12,140 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 192 | #37,992 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 184 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 184 | #17,741 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 169 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 169 | #18,853 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 50 | #18,641 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 50 | #29,265 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 49 | #10,727 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 27 | #39,568 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Hain mean, and where does it come from?
- from Hayne, from the medieval personal name Hain, from a nickname meaning wretch, from Middle High German hagen, or from German Hagin Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Hain have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Hain, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hain.
- Where is Hain most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hain is densest in Poland — about 1 in 108 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hain?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,776 people named Hain in 2010, about 1 in 120 thousand residents.
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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, “Hain”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.