Hie
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/haɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.5M(measured from records)
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 11K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 52K
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.
- Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the personal name Ille, a vernacular form of Aegidius (see Giles, and compare Illig).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Hie is read(measured from records)
Hie is one spelling over 3 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.
- English37%
To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ion, Romanian politician
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
daughter of Priam, wife of
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Indonesian20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hie in Indonesian.
- French20%
stamping/ramming rod
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Hie 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 1.7K | — | — |
| MY Malaysia | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Hie | 27 |
| FR France | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 182K | 54 | — | 2 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 155K | — | Hie | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 544K | — | Hie | 21 |
| US United States | 131 | 1 in 2.5M | 131 | Hie | 106 |
| NO Norway | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Hie | 2 |
| SG Singapore | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 178K | — | Hie | 17 |
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: nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Hie 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 German, from the personal name Ille, a vernacular form of Aegidius (see Giles, and compare Illig).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
patronymic from the personal name Ilija (see Elias).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Jean-Luc Hieb. 1957FRFrench politician
- Arnaud Hieb. 1965FRFrench politician
- Miriam Hieb. 1978ATAustrian actress
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 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 1.7K | #327 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 131 | #129,825 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 124 | #139,059 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 110 | #139,757 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 71 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 64 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 58 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 54 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 49 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 46 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 46 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 43 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Hie come from?
- from the personal name Ille, a vernacular form of Aegidius (see Giles, and compare Illig). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Hie?
- In the etymology graph, Heichen is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Hie?
- A machine transcription gives /haɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Hie mean?
- In English, To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.
- In which country does Hie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Hie in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 131 people named Hie in 2010, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hieThe 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, “Hie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.