Hine
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Middle English hīne 'hind, servant'; first attested William, Robert le Hyne 1240 Eynsham (O) (A Dictionary of English Surnames)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Hine is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 3,738 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 27K
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 28K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 302 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
3,738 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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)
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Hine is found
(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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,738 | 1 in 89K | 3.8K | Hine | 302 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 27K | listed | Hine | 170 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Hine | 137 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 327 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Hine | 66 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 10 | Hine | 63 |
| CR Costa Rica | #713 | 115 | 1 in 44K | 115 | Hine | 15 |
3,738 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; 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)
- Al Hineb. 1915USAmerican author
- Rupert Hineb. 1947GBBritish rock musician and producer (1947-2020)
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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hine?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Hine, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hine. After it come United Kingdom, Australia, Côte d’Ivoire and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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” — ranked 8092nd in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.