Hine
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Middle English hīne 'hind, servant'; first attested William, Robert le Hyne 1240 Eynsham (O)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhaɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hine is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 28K
- USUnited States1 in 89K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 302 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Middle English hīne 'hind, servant'; first attested William, Robert le Hyne 1240 Eynsham (O)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hine 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | Hine | 4 |
| US United States | — | 3,738 | 1 in 89K | 3.8K | Hine | 302 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 28K | listed | Hine | 170 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Hine | 137 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 327 | — | — |
| CU Cuba | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Hine | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 10 | Hine | 63 |
| CR Costa Rica | #713 | 115 | 1 in 44K | 115 | Hine | 15 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Hine 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.
occupational name for a servant, from Middle English hine ‘lad’, ‘servant’ (originally a collective term for a body of servants, from an Old English plural noun, hJwan ‘household’). Later in the Middle English period, the word acquired an excrescent -d (see Hind).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, hine lad, servant (originally a collective term for a body of servants, from OEhiwan (pi.) household). Vars.: Hyne, Hind. Patr.: Hynes.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, ‘servant’, from Middle English hme ‘lad, servant’
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Americanized spelling of German Hein.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Māori, girl; chiefly used in addressing a girl or young woman, never used with an article or definitive; daughter
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Lewis Hineb. 1874USAmerican sociologist and photographer (1874–1940)
- Lyman Hineb. 1888USbobsledder (1888–1930)
- Al Hineb. 1915USAmerican author
- Robert V. Hineb. 1921USAmerican historian (1921–2015)
- John Hineb. 1938GBBritish Roman Catholic bishop
- Richard Hineb. 1939AUcyclist
- Rupert Hineb. 1947GBBritish rock musician and producer (1947-2020)
- Phil Hineb. 1950GBBritish writer
- Mark Hineb. 1964GBEnglish footballer (born 1964)
- Nicholas Hineb. 1966GBBritish Royal Navy officer
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 29 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.8K | #8,092 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.7K | #8,770 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.4K | #9,225 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 327 | #1,415 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 115 | #1,375 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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 given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Hine mean, and where does it come from?
- Middle English hīne 'hind, servant'; first attested William, Robert le Hyne 1240 Eynsham (O) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Hine?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhaɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hine have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Hine in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hine.
- How common is the name Hine?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,738 people named Hine in 2010, about 1 in 89 thousand residents.
- How common is Hine compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Hine is the 713th most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hineThe 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, “Hine” — the 713th most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.