Hickin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: diminutive of Hick; first attested David Hicun 1275 RH (Sf)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hɪkɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hickin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Central African Republic than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 167K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2M
- CFCentral African Republic≈1 in 12K
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.
- Central African Republic (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 112 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈480 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Central African Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
diminutive of Hick; first attested David Hicun 1275 RH (Sf)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hickin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CF Central African Republic | #585 | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Hickin | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Hickin | 101 |
| US United States | — | 163 | 1 in 2M | 166 | Hickin | 112 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Hickin | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 433K | — | Hickin | 39 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 301K | — | Hickin | 15 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Hickin is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname transferred from the given name.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Norman Hickinb. 1910GBEnglish entomologist (1910 - 1990)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 166 | #112,515 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 163 | #108,734 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 156 | #105,905 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Hickin mean, and where does it come from?
- diminutive of Hick; first attested David Hicun 1275 RH (Sf) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Hickin?
- A machine transcription gives /hɪkɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hickin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 484 people named Hickin in the Central African Republic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hickin.
- How common is the name Hickin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 163 people named Hickin in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
- How common is Hickin compared with other names?
- In the Central African Republic, Hickin is the 585th most common surname of 1,109 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hickinThe 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, “Hickin” — the 585th most common surname in Central African Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.