Hieta
surname · Latin script
Meaning: silt, fine sand (technical definition: mineral soil with dominating particle size from 20 μm to 60 μm)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hieta is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- FIFinland
- SESweden
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
silt, fine sand (technical definition: mineral soil with dominating particle size from 20 μm to 60 μm)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- USUnited States
- FIFinland
- CACanada
- UAUkraine
- SESweden
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pekka Hietab. 1953FIFinnish association football player
- Risto Hietab. 1956FIFinnish journalist
- Heli Hietab. 1966FIFinnish illustrator
- Reija Hietaresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 545 | #3,192 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 220 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 28 | #19,739 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Hieta mean, and where does it come from?
- silt, fine sand (technical definition: mineral soil with dominating particle size from 20 μm to 60 μm) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Hieta have the most bearers?
- Hieta is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Hieta?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hietaThe 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, “Hieta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.