Hinga
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/hiŋɡɑ/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Hinga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 379K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.9M
- PTPortugal≈1 in 250Kfew records
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
- 18 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 253K (inferred from the name graph)
171 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hinga 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 | 171 | 1 in 1.9M | 215 | Hinga | 10 |
| AR Argentina | 120 | 1 in 379K | 120 | Hinga | 18 |
| PT Portugal | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | Hinga | 6 |
| PE Peru | — | — | — | Hinga | 12 |
| CO Colombia | — | — | — | Hinga | 2 |
171 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)Hinga 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 Filipino, breathing; respiration
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Māori, to fall, to tumble
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Kinyarwanda, cultivate, plow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hz, to drive
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rap, fall
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In men, form, men, males
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
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)- Bud Hingab. 1900USAmerican football coach and athletic director (1900–1960)
- Jim Hingab. 1924USAmerican basketball player-coach (1924-2002)
- Teresia Mbari Hingab. 1955KEKenyan theologian, co-founder of Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians
- Austin DembySLnot in their usual nameMinister of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 215 | #91,884 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 171 | #104,602 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 170 | #98,770 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 120 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Hinga?
- It depends on the language: in Swahili /hiŋɡɑ/; in Spanish /iŋɡa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Hinga have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 171 people named Hinga, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hinga.
- How common is the name Hinga?
- In the United States, the national register counted 171 people named Hinga in 2010, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Hinga?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hingaThe 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, “Hinga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.