Hinten
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling feature
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hɪntən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hinten is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.2M(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 87K
- CNChina≈1 in 387K
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
- 86 (measured from records)
- 1 in 87K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling feature.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hinten 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 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 387K | — | Hinten | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 198 | 1 in 87K | 198 | Hinten | 16 |
| US United States | 148 | 1 in 2.2M | 161 | Hinten | 86 |
| DE Germany | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 815K | — | Hinten | 34 |
| CA Canada | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Hinten | 3 |
| AT Austria | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 593K | — | Hinten | 3 |
| BE Belgium | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 837K | — | Hinten | 4 |
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 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Hinten is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, at/in the back
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In German, behind; in the back
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kaw, diamond
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Dutch, to hint
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)
- Lia Hintenb. 1942NLDutch athlete (1942–2021)
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 8 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 198 | #10,526 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 161 | #115,151 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 148 | #117,480 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 130 | #122,534 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Hinten mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling feature. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Hinten?
- A machine transcription gives /hɪntən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hinten have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Hinten in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hinten.
- Where is Hinten most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hinten is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 87 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hinten?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 198 people named Hinten in 2007, about 1 in 87 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hintenThe 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, “Hinten”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.