Hayun

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/həjən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Hayun is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ILIsrael1 in 1.5Kas חיון(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 1.5M
  • QAQatar≈1 in 2.9Kas חיון

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 Hayun 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.

Israel (measured from records)

5,880 named חיון, 2017

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
52 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

HayunLatin(measured from records)
חיוןHebrew(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled חיון in IL Israel, MA Morocco, QA Qatar and 3 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hayun 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.

Where Hayun is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IL Israel#1085,880as חיון1 in 1.5K5.9Kחיון52
IQ Iraq#549≈2,700 est.≈1 in 14K—חיון1
LY Libya#337≈2,000 est.≈1 in 3.4K—חיון2
MA Morocco#798≈1,600 est.≈1 in 23K—חיון3
TN Tunisia#571≈1,400 est.≈1 in 8.6K—חיון2
QA Qatar#181≈830 est.≈1 in 2.9K—חיון1
BE Belgium—81 in 1.5M8—2

5,880 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hayun is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Korean given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Korea, United States, Morocco, Macao

    Also written 하연, 하윤, Hayoun, Ha-Yun, Ha-Youn

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Israel

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ha-Yun

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, Algeria

    Also written Ḥayūn

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Ḥayun, Ha-Yun, Ḥayūn

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Hayun is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In poz-wmp-pro, shake, sway, swing

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In ban, to rock, swing

    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)

160017001800190020002100Nehemiah Hayyun, b. 1650Tsila Hayun, b. 1963Ron Hayon, b. 2006

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Hayun
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20088#81,448

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

How do you pronounce Hayun?
A machine transcription gives /həjən/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
In which country does Hayun have the most bearers?
In Israel, the national register counted about 5.9 thousand people named חיון, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Hayun most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hayun is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 1.5 million people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Hayun?
In Belgium, the national register counted 8 people named Hayun in 2008, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
How common is Hayun compared with other names?
In Israel, Hayun is the 108th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.

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The 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, “Hayun” — the 108th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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