Hinds
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘son of Hind’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hajndz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hinds is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Barbados it is the 32nd most common surname.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 3.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 15K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 15K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 426 (measured from records)
- 1 in 695 (inferred from the name graph)
15,337 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘son of Hind’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hinds 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 15,337 | 1 in 22K | 15K | Hinds | 426 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Hinds | 187 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | Hinds | 8 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Hinds | 127 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Hinds | 126 |
| GY Guyana | #54 | 1,079 | 1 in 695 | 1.1K | Hinds | 9 |
| JM Jamaica | #124 | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Hinds | 29 |
| GD Grenada | — | 70 | 1 in 1.6K | 70 | — | 4 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 63 | 1 in 1.6K | 63 | — | 3 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 12 | 1 in 4.5K | 12 | — | 4 |
| BB Barbados | #32 | — | — | 55 | Hinds | 63 |
15,337 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; the bb-ebc-voter-slices-2025 register; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
Hinds 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 English, variant of Heyne.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Danish, indefinite genitive singular of hind
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)
- Samuel S. Hindsb. 1875USAmerican actor (1875-1948)
- Anthony Hindsb. 1922GBBritish film producer, screenwriter (1922–2013)
- Sam Hindsb. 1943GY5th Prime Minister of Guyana
- Edward Hindsb. 1949GBBritish physicist
- Ciarán Hindsb. 1953GBNorthern Irish actor
- Damian Hindsb. 1969GBBritish politician (born 1969)
- Alison Hindsb. 1970BBBarbadian singer
- Aisha Hindsb. 1975USAmerican actress
- Aoife Hindsb. 1991GBBritish actress
- Taylor Hindsb. 1999GBEnglish footballer
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 32 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 15K | #2,375 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 15K | #2,395 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 14K | #2,319 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1.1K | #78 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 70 | #155 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 63 | #199 |
| BB Barbados | Barbados — Electoral register, deceased-voters slice | 2025 | 30 | #12 |
| BB Barbados | Barbados — Electoral register, overseas-voters slice | 2025 | 25 | #13 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 12 | #170 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
- 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 Hinds mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘son of Hind’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Hinds?
- A machine transcription gives /hajndz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hinds have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Hinds, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hinds.
- Where is Hinds most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hinds is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 695 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hinds?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,337 people named Hinds in 2010, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Hinds compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Hinds is the 32nd most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hindsThe 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, “Hinds” — the 32nd most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.