Hiel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hiel's story serves as a theological demonstration of the efficacy of God's word and the enduring nature of the curse placed on Jericho by Joshua
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ajəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hiel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 27K(measured from records)
- DMDominica1 in 74K
- NLNetherlands1 in 95K
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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- 1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
431 people, 2008
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Hiel's story serves as a theological demonstration of the efficacy of God's word and the enduring nature of the curse placed on Jericho by Joshua. It underscores the consequences of defying divine warnings.
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hiel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 431 | 1 in 27K | 431 | Hiel | 24 |
| US United States | 239 | 1 in 1.4M | 242 | Hiel | 23 |
| NL Netherlands | 182 | 1 in 95K | 182 | Hiel | 9 |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 4 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
| DM Dominica | 1 | 1 in 74K | 1 | — | — |
431 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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)
Hiel 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 Dutch, heel, part of the foot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
God lives or Brother of God
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In vo, the (used for all proper nouns and also foreign loanwords not yet assimilated into Volapük, but unlike el, this article also denotes that the proper noun's referent is masculine)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Western Frisian, whole, entire
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, bile
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)
- Didier Hielb. 1949FRFrench politician
- Clement Hielb. 1952BEBelgian engineer (born 1952)
- Christel Hielb. 1976BEBelgian rower
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 19 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 431 | #3,602 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 406 | #3,923 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 242 | #74,398 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 239 | #79,598 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 225 | #88,580 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 182 | #11,370 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #224,619 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #226 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Hiel mean, and where does it come from?
- Hiel's story serves as a theological demonstration of the efficacy of God's word and the enduring nature of the curse placed on Jericho by Joshua. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- How do you pronounce Hiel?
- A machine transcription gives /ajəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hiel have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 431 people named Hiel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hiel.
- Where is Hiel most common?
- Hiel is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 27 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hiel?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 431 people named Hiel in 2008, about 1 in 27 thousand 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/hielThe 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, “Hiel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.