Hiak
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hiak is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1Mas Yek(measured from records)
- THThailand≈1 in 17Mfew recordsas เอี๊ยก
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 Hiak 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.1M (inferred from the name graph)
≈4 named เอี๊ยก, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica, as Yek
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Yek in TH Thailand.
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)Hiak 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 17M | register #959,048 | Yek | 12 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1as Yek | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | — | 43 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 18 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | — | 2 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)Hiak 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 cdo, to fall, to topple over, also to flap "aT or move suddenly. hiak-d6 (1¢h-li) Opa) to topple over flat. hiak-gu6 to flap over as a leaf or a door
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, to flap, as birds’ wings, to raise oscillating
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In asl, cut wood (for kindling)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In cdo, to deceive, to cozen, to cheat, to delude
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, a flat brass drawer puller, (diu
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Hiak a male or female name?
- Hiak is a male 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Hiak?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4 people named เอี๊ยก in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Costa Rica; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Hiak most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Hiak itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Costa Rica's: the national register counts about 1 in 5.1 million people named Yek.
- How common is the name Hiak?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 1 people named Yek, about 1 in 5.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Hiak?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hiakThe 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, “Hiak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.