Hihn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Möglicherweise zu mhd (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
Hihn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country: 7 people, counted by SSB.
- NONorway1 in 781K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 781K (inferred from the name graph)
7 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Möglicherweise zu mhd. hiune 'Riese'; 243 Belege. Auch Patronym aus einer Kurzform mit i-Stammvokal denkbar.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Where the surname Hihn is found
(measured from records)Hihn 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 7 | 1 in 781K | 7 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Hihn | 9 |
| AR Argentina | — | — | — | Hihn | 13 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | Hihn | 6 |
| FR France | — | — | 5 | — | — |
7 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hihn mean?
- Recorded meaning: Möglicherweise zu mhd.
- In which country does Hihn have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 7 people named Hihn, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hihn most common?
- Hihn is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 781 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hihn?
- In Norway, the national register counted 7 people named Hihn, about 1 in 781 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/hihnThe 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, “Hihn” — ranked 64159th in Norway (SSB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.