Hii
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/hii/(machine-generated) Malay · model-generated
Hii is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 39Kfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 70K
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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Hii
- Malay:/hii/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Hii is found
(measured from records)Hii 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #950 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Hii | 74 |
| IN India | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | 32 | Hii | 16 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Hii | 82 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Hii | 8 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Hii | 33 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 144K | — | Hii | 28 |
| PL Poland | — | 18 | 1 in 2.1M | 11 | — | — |
| AT Austria | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 623K | — | Hii | 5 |
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 in-instate-surnames-bystate register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)Hii is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, a to break, to ruin, to slander, avert ; ‘ calamities by prayer, (ciék
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, a blazing fire, bright, splendid, to \ destroy by fire, (siéu-hii)
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, to drink tea, (gaeng-siah-da-sidheats till his back swells out
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, sound of pigs rooting, things knocking together
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, the cheering cries of a party of wood choppers
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, to split, to rend, to point out s unassuming
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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)- King Kuok Hiib. 1969GBBritish chemist
- Remy Hiib. 1986AUAustralian actor
- Megan Hiiresearcher (ORCID 0000-0003-4625-5028)
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Hii?
- In Malay /hii/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hii?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.1 thousand people named Hii in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hii. After it come India, Australia, Nigeria and Singapore; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Hii?
- In Poland, the national register counted 18 people named Hii in 2026, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
- How common is Hii compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Hii is the 950th most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hii?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hiiThe 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, “Hii” — the 950th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.